Ian Mckellen Quotes
The most likely explanation is the most practical. 'Macbeth' is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of 'Macbeth'. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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The most amazing set where I've shot 'Game of Thrones' is definitely Croatia, in Dubrovnik. It's such a stunning country with lots of good watersports there as well. Just a beautiful, beautiful place.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that looked like the Michelin Man.
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My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
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God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hearts to give; for the giving that is governed by a fixed determination. The Spirit of God revolutionises our philanthropic instincts. Much of our philanthropy is simply the impulse to save ourselves an uncomfortable feeling. The Spirit of God alters all that. As saints our attitude towards giving is that we give for Jesus Christ's sake, and from no other motive.
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I always thought of myself as more of a columnist, but maybe a columnist who does reporting.
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African audiences cannot accept our passive consumer role in the presence of film. (p. 44)
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Good is the enemy of great. That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem
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The most likely explanation is the most practical. 'Macbeth' is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of 'Macbeth'. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.
