Ian Mcewan Quotes
Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.
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I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
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I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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Anyone who is awake and aware knows that these quote-unquote bathroom bills or any legislation discriminating against LGBTQ citizens is horrible.
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A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.
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I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
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I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.
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I think the reason why a lot of young people are such screw ups... is oftentimes they didn't have the luxury I had of forming important relationships and opinions and life experiences before having success.
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The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid the inner devastations. His technique was to practice the opposite emotion... a man may not get his freedom or possessions back, but he's less miserable. It's a difficult lesson.
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Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.
