Ian Mckellen Quotes
The first film role I deliberately chose to play after I came out was a raging heterosexual, John Profumo.
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way I can keep up running the way I'm running; there's no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.' It's the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov
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I have fabulous children.
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The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.
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I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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I'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question, or something isn't working, I ask Google, and that usually throws up the answer.
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My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I paused, only just now realizing that the subject was hitting a little close to home. "You know, getting hurt. Putting herself out there, opening up to someone." Yeah," he said adding some cheese straws to the cart, "but risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't." I picked up a box of cheese straws, examining it. "Yeah," I said. "But it's not all about chance, either.
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All scientific men will be delighted to extend their warmest congratulations to Tesla and to express their appreciation of his great contributions to science.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
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I didn't want to go to Chelsea, because I wanted to play the Champions League and they were sixth in the league.
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The first film role I deliberately chose to play after I came out was a raging heterosexual, John Profumo.
