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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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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God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
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When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent.
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In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time before an airplane transporting an atomic bomb would crash on American soil, unleashing a radioactive disaster the likes of which the world had never seen.
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I want to work with anyone who's passionate about telling a story. I obviously have a list of people I really love, but it's a really long list.
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I don't think a show's ever changed networks in the middle of the season before, but it was cool because they gave us those extra couple years of life that was necessary to get us to syndication.
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Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.
