Ian Mcewan Quotes
For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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The thing about Bollywood is that you can't just quit it even if you have little fame. You have to stick around and keep trying.
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Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.
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To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.
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All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
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It's cheaper to buy a house and finance it than it is to rent in many markets.
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Nothing wrong with making money.
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There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.
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If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.
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If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.
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I believe in order to make a friend, you have to be a friend.
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Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
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'I'm tired of being what everyone else has made me,' I said. 'I want to be myself.''Don’t be a child.'I looked up, startled and angry, though of course there was nothing to see. 'What?''You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I’m tired of your whining.'
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An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.
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Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.
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All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. Especially do all stories of monogamy end in death, and your man who is monogamous while he often lives most happily, dies in the most lonely fashion.
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Anyone who does not in their way of interpreting events around the world is an infidel, regardless if you're a Muslim or you're not a Muslim. That doesn't matter.
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For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack.
