Ian Mcewan Quotes

We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white.

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• To be able to sit back and enjoy the game, sit back and watch guys that you know played and you might have worked with it or you personally know, it's cool; it's awesome to sit back and say I know that guy because you're more of a fan of that game and that person.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Cool

• In the Lamborghini I have to avoid certain roads because of pot holes, and there's nowhere to put my drink, no cup holder. And I'm not going to lie, it looks pretentious. I used to think it was cool to, like, drive it to dinner. Now? Like I really need to be looked at any more.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Cool
  • Lie
  • Roads

• If you meet a girl, you meet a girl. It's normal, so if you exchange numbers, whatevs, it's cool.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Girl
  • Cool
  • Numbers

• It's cool because football, as much as it gives, it takes away a lot, too.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Cool
  • Football
  • Away

• There aren't as many girl superheroes, but there are cool ones. Banshee, for instance.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Girl
  • Cool
  • Superheroes

• One cool thing is because Mom and Dad aren't into the Hollywood scene, they don't read 'US Weekly' or anything like that. They give me space. They don't care. They just want all of their children to be doing something that they love to do and be able to pay their insurance.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Children
  • Love
  • Dad

• I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Up
  • Game
  • Cool

• You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Life
  • Cool
  • Lights

• It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies, character-driven stuff. I would love to do more theater on a larger scale. I'm just excited for the next thing that comes along that I'm salivating over. I think a little more guerrilla would be really exciting to me.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Love
  • Character
  • Dream

• The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Women
  • Cool
  • Theatre

• Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Pretty
  • Cool
  • Name

• I'm pretty content with what I have, but the one thing that I don't have is something like the iPod - but PC-based. I think that would be cool.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • You
  • Cool

• My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just the way she handled certain things, she was... not soft-spoken but smooth-spoken. Just very calm, cool, collected about things.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• I'm really into kind of finding different masculine pieces and making them feminine. Like cool oxfords.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Cool

• John Schneider's cool. I mean, he is the epitome of cool. To be that confident without any chip on his shoulder is very hard to do, and that man just has it. To be that well-known and still be so personable and social, it's just fantastic.

  

  Randy Wayne
  • Man
  • Cool
  • Confident

• So much about 'Rookie' has been very organically familial among our contributors, among our readers. Yeah, if I interview someone like Lorde, who I do know outside of work - sometimes I'm just so happy; it's so cool that this is organically, effortlessly, the warm, supportive friend vibe that we want here.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Friend

• Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• I was lucky enough to have an older brother who shared the splatter flicks with me, and I had parents who were cool and involved enough in my life to allow me to see them. I think my folks appreciated that I looked at these movies as a creative outlet... almost like magic shows, if you will.

  

  Adam Green
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Cool

• When you come to L.A. as a kid with your mom, you're lured into doing things that you think are cool and fun and a good idea, but they're cheesy and awful. And recording a pop single was one of them.

  

  Penn Badgley
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Single

• When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Long
  • Remember

• I believe we have the potential to quadruple Australia's food exports to Asia.

  

  Anthony Pratt
  • Believe
  • Food

• Both my kids like Adele, and I gotta say, the girl can sing.

  

  Bob Weir Grateful Dead
  • Kids
  • Girl

• We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Cool