Ian Mcewan Quotes
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
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Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'
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As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
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Along with racial equality and the late bloom of women's rights, future generations will have to explain how, in the past, gays were misunderstood and publicly humiliated for loving each other, and, eventually, how they stood together and conquered stupidity and hypocritical hatred, and fought their way out of marginalization.
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I never fully understand all the drama and machinations within the Eagles.
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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The gratification of desire is not happiness.
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Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really cool. Dustin Hoffman is my favorite actor. Also, I think of Magic Johnson as an idol.
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I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.
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I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you'll be.
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I would say to young entrepreneurs and budding philanthropists - are you giving to feel good or do good?
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Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there's stress or tension, they won't go out on a limb because they won't want to embarrass themselves if they don't feel completely comfortable.
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I don't really believe in evil at all.
