Ian Mcewan Quotes
It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.Ian Mcewan
Quotes to Explore
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
Varley O'Connor -
Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
Tadashi Yanai -
Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
Barry Ritholtz -
These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
Viktor Orban -
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
Vince Lombardi -
You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
J. B. Smoove
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
Irwin Thomas -
I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
R. Kelly -
I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
Oliver Hudson -
All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
Said Nursi -
I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
Edan Lepucki -
Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.
Fiona Apple -
I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
Camille Claudel -
Acting was something I had to do.
Nancy Marchand -
For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.
Kate Grenville -
I want to serve the people.
Malala Yousafzai
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John Goodman is like the Jackie Chan of acting. Any prop that you put in front of him, he's going to take advantage of it in some peculiar way.
Dan Trachtenberg -
Azarius, for his part, had not made her voyage to the depths of pain to understand that death and birth, in that place, have almost the same tragic meaning.
Gabrielle Roy -
If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
Manny Montana -
Man has learned how to challenge both Nature and art to become the incitements to vice! His very cups he has delighted to engrave with libidinous subjects, and he takes pleasure in drinking from vessels of obscene form!
Pliny the Elder -
The final effort came when our reconnaissance team reported contact with the POWs and their guards by radio near midnight at a pre-arranged crossing site.
Bo Gritz -
It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.
Ian Mcewan