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 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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Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.
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Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the beam that plays briefly on each succeeding ring. All humanity from its beginning to its end is already present but the beam has not yet played beyond you.
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I question every word; I write 'the' and immediately feel scorn. It's such an ordinary word - everybody uses it - why can't I come up with something original? In the sunlight, every single word seems hackneyed.
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I'm quite good at not writing.
