Ian Mcewan Quotes
At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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Homosexuals are not welcome in the Gambia.
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Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
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My parents actually ran drag clubs in Australia, which is how I grew up. It was normal for me. It was my normal. I knew the other kids didn't do it, but for me, it was life, and nothing was wrong with it. I would see nothing wrong with Beyonce having a drag queen nanny. And why not? Everyone needs one! And a great gay man in their life.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
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Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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I'm confident and really optimistic.
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I think that liberals need to grow up.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I know one writer who has been subscribing authors without their permission and sending out what she thinks are helpful advice sheets, but they come off as if she's a know-it-all. She thinks she's marketing herself and her work. All she's really doing is turning readers off.
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I've always said from starting off, 'I don't mind if I'm in a big budget film or a huge play or something small in London playing for 50 people, as long as I'm doing what I love doing for a living.'
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I always think the true test of free speech is when someone says something you don't like.
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Compromise has a negative connotation.
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It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
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At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened.
