Ian Mcewan Quotes
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All my life, it's been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure.
Samantha Fox -
People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
Malcolm Gladwell -
Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.
Edgar Wright -
Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.
Samantha Smith -
Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
Fidel Castro -
I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.
Gary McCord
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
Jack Adams -
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
Walt Disney -
That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
Vicki Lawrence -
When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
Walter Lippmann -
I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
Rajeev Shukla -
You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.
Ingrid Newkirk -
I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
Edmund White -
It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot -
I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.
Naomie Harris -
We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
Barry Diller
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Strenuously competitive parents may indeed produce high-achieving grownups, but it’s in the nature of things that high-achieving adults are likely to become frustrated and embittered old people, once the rug is pulled out from under their occupation.
Adam Gopnik -
If you turn on the film, I can play.
Chris Borland -
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)
Immanuel Kant -
Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce what exists and thus open a path for a new formation of the world.
Martin Heidegger -
We can fight Big Industry.
Bobby Scott -
One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
Ian Mcewan