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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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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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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Suddenly you're the mom, or you go from ... You're not an ingénue, you don't want to play an ingénue, but it's like that line in The First Wives Club 1996: "There are only three ages for women in Hollywood: babe, district attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.
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But no man's a hero to himself.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
