Ian Mckellen Quotes
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I mean, I would have loved to have kept on being a big television star. If that's the way things would have broke, I would have loved to have done that. I just didn't really want to continue and be someone who took whatever was offered.
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Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'
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I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
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People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.
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I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.
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I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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You’ve been here before. It won’t kill you. It feels like you can’t breathe, but you actually are breathing. It feels like you’ll never stop crying, but you actually will.
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Young people want to work.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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You can’t be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.
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how anyone could remain an individual if he had to conform with senseless orders and old foolish things without being asked his opinion on them.
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My own death threats have declined considerably.
