Ian Mcewan Quotes
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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I would rather be on the set than doing anything.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
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There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.
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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.
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Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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One good thing about being young is that you're not experienced enough to know what can't be done.
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And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
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I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers.
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What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
