Ian Mcewan Quotes

However, withered, I still feel myself to be exactly the same person I've always been. Hard to explain that to the young. we may look truly reptilian, but we're not a separate tribe.

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• I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.

  

  Rachel McAdams
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  • Different
  • Kids

• Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Great
  • God
  • Fear

• When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.

  

  Ice T
  • Life
  • Music
  • Friends

• Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Work
  • Enjoy

• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Notes
  • Pure
  • Anywhere

• Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Way
  • Before
  • DNA

• Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Forever

• There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • World
  • City
  • Quality

• I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Fall

• When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

  

  Camille Paglia
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  • Father
  • Myself

• Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Hurt

• I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Up
  • Family
  • Church

• Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Good
  • Game
  • Sometimes

• After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Me
  • Person
  • First

• Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Exercise
  • New
  • Insecurity

• Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Great
  • Support
  • Comedy

• We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Trying
  • Chance
  • Take

• I have been firming up and making changes in my roster for 2001. This needs to be done from now and then, to make sure what you are booking is working, and to keep a balance in your roster that works.

  

  Pat Garrett
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  • Done
  • You

• I am always telling students that a story is not just words. You can tell a story with dance or paint or music. Kids and adults are visual learners, auditory learners. There are those of us who need to touch it. Storytelling encompasses so much more than words on paper.

  

  Deborah Wiles
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Words

• No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • May
  • Man

• I feel I owe you another explanation Harry," said Dumbledore hesitantly. "You may, perhaps, wondered why I never chose you as a prefect? I must confess...that I rather thought...you had enough responsibility to be going on with." Harry looked up at him and saw a tear trickling down Dumbledore's face into his long silver beard.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's no getting over that.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• However, withered, I still feel myself to be exactly the same person I've always been. Hard to explain that to the young. we may look truly reptilian, but we're not a separate tribe.

  

  Ian Mcewan
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