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.
Ian Mckellen
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
Samuel Butler
I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
Irwin Thomas
If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig
Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
Nancy Cartwright
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.
Becky G
Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
Faith Hill
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.
Wangari Maathai
I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
Tammy Duckworth
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.
Barbara Park
One cabbie chastened me by saying that the fashion industry was doing harm to young people, who are trying to live up to an unrealistic ideal. It prompted me to make body image and diversity key issues on 'The Business of Fashion.'
Imran Amed
What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stood.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
I think that everyone in Seattle, their daily existence, is enriched by all the charitable giving that is courtesy of Microsoft.
Maria Semple
Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate.
Jay Leno
There is great power in deference. Deference works with everybody.
Christopher Voss
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.
Ian Mckellen
