Ian Mcewan Quotes
I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'
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Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
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To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.
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I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.
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Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.
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Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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I'm trying my best.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
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I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.
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What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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I consider Rashi Khanna and Regina Cassandra as my best friends. They say there are three Rs in the Telugu industry: Rakul, Rashi, and Regina. All three of us debuted in the same year, and while we all compete for the same roles, we are still the closest, and we confide in each other.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.
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Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.
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I don't attend costume parties.
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Roger [Corman] didn't actually hire me, though. I was hired by AIP [American International Pictures], the studio that made the picture, which was Sam Arkoff and Jim Nicholson. It was a great learning experience for me, because not only did I work on the script, but they hired me back to go on location when they were making the movie, to write new scenes and so forth.
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I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'
