Ian Mcewan Quotes
The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing from her novella--and was necessary to it.
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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I paint, and painting gives me my much needed break from my routine. Painting was a subject in my school, and I developed a liking for the lines and colours and started practising in my free time. It helps me de-stress amidst my hectic shooting schedules.
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The scene was attempted a second time, up on top of the fort, and cameras didn't even roll. Michael, though he wasn't admitting it, wasn't sure how to shoot the scene.
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I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Of course Linkin Park. Actually, I already worked with Travis Barker on a couple of things. Gotta let the drummer get some. Possibly Paramore, Hayley Williams.
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I always love China, especially the old China.
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I don't have a weapon in my hand, and I don't have a uniform on my body, but my uniform now is my scars and weapon is my words, so I'm still serving.
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There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.
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One of my favorite movies of all time is 'Bugsy Malone.'
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I don't believe in a chronological way of doing things.
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Roy Keane and Paul Scholes were unbelievable players. You cannot compare yourself to them. It is impossible. Scholes especially, I like him a lot, and I have a lot of respect for what he did for United.
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Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.
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In adolescence I started to find out about Robert Wilson because I saw Lou Reed's "Timerocker" at [the Brooklyn Academy of Music]. I started getting into Jim Jarmusch and knew that my uncle was a friend of his. I pieced together parts of his life in high school and college, which lead me to his story in a funny way.
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The aim is to move from doing just action dramas to establishing myself as someone who can do family dramas as well.
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Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place.
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Myrnin turned away to pick up his Ben Franklin spectacles, balanced them on his nose, and looked over them to say, "Don't do drugs. I feel I ought to say that.
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The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing from her novella--and was necessary to it.
