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
  • Up
  • Different
  • Kids

• Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • Country
  • I Believe

• 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
  • Up
  • 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

• In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.

  

  Peter Blair Henry
  • People
  • Pretty

• The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • God
  • May
  • Dance

• I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Live
  • Country
  • Movies

• Question everything.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • Question

• Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Work
  • Music
  • Literature

• 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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