Ian Mckellen Quotes
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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I was very obsessed with my music, and I think that, as a young girl, I really wanted to get into this business, and I don't think my parents really knew how to protect me.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.
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I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.
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I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
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The gateway to freedom...was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven through New Orleans on tour and I'd been told my great grandfather had lived way back up in the woods among the evergreens in a log cabin. I revived the era with a song about a coloured boy named Johnny B. Goode. My first thought was to make his life follow as my own had come along, but I thought it would seem biased to white fans to say 'coloured boy' and changed it to 'country boy'.
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The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.
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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
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I got intrigued by working in small theatres.
