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 could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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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 was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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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 think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
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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 never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.
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Unnamed director: The script is too caustic.Goldwyn: To hell with the cost. If it's a good picture, we'll make it.
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When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, 'The Maroon Wave,' and that's when I fell in love with journalism.
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It's a maddening thing in itself to look at an old poem of yours. To translate it is even more maddening.
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If you can out last that discomfort! I guarantee you baby; on the other side of it is success.
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I'm quite good at not writing.
