Ian Mcewan Quotes
What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.
Quotes to Explore
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The sun never sets on my gallery.
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business.
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The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.
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I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.
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I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
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Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.
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When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
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I have never broken a contract in my career.
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I never read about photography.
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There is nothing cooler than to have them singing your words back to you. The last show I did, I was kind of nervous about putting the mic out there, because you're not sure how it's going to go. But I did, and they sang the whole chorus. I thought, 'Holy crap! That is the coolest feeling.' It's the biggest rush ever.
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Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.
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No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.
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We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender.
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I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.
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Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.
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I've always loved color because it's a little bit like music. I love that it seems to be both physical and ephemeral and engages us as a metaphor for our feeling lives.
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A food processor, or even one of those small bowls that fit on a stick blender, is a real treasure. No, that's not an overstatement.
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Dick Clark will be truly missed. We will carry on his legacy every New Year's Eve.
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If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.
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What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.
