Ian Mcewan Quotes
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayraf. So now he's Jacob Sayraf, or sometimes Jake Sayraf. He made the change when he was a teenager, prior to the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. So I don't think it was motivated by any anti-Iranian sentiment in the United States.
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You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
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I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.
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We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap!
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
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I got shot. I always felt like I'd be shot. Somebody was trying to do me some harm because a lot of people don't like me. But I didn't think it was gonna happen at that particular moment.
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I'm not a pirate. I'm an innovator.
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I think that a good movie creates its own world, and that world needn't refer to anything that's real. If it's consistent, if it's entertaining, if it's interesting, it justifies its being there.
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The more you read, the better you are at writing, no matter what you're writing. A lot of songwriters miss that and don't see the connection there, and I've always felt like you're more able to communicate if you have a bigger toolbox to work with.
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With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life
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I'm quite good at not writing.
