Ian Mckellen Quotes
I certainly don't disparage someone whose attitude towards their work is utterly different from mine - that's up to them.
Quotes to Explore
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.
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I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
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It's always been based around the song, and guitar-playing in the service of the song... The sensibility is about songs. I like to think of it as kind of 'refined primitive.'
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The phone's not ringing off the hook, but that's ok by me. I feel very fortunate, work to me has become a kind of hobby.
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I follow my interests pretty - I don't like the word 'intuitively.' I follow them in a kind of natural way, without questioning them too much.
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For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
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I certainly don't disparage someone whose attitude towards their work is utterly different from mine - that's up to them.
