Ian Mckellen Quotes
There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company. But you also end up in the company of people you don't admire, including some rather dodgy politicians.
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
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American politicians who dwell on American exceptionalism only dishonor us by suggesting we play dumb to our past.
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I never really think of something in terms of what not to do. It's always what's appealing or what's cool.
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Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.
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The thing about spending a lifetime under a long, bushy cloud of curls is that people naturally began associating me with my hair.
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My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere.
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There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company. But you also end up in the company of people you don't admire, including some rather dodgy politicians.
