Ian Mcewan Quotes
Dearest Cecilia, You’d be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is I feel rather light headed and foolish in your presence, Cee, and I don’t think I can blame the heat.
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The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of 'It's a Wonderful Life' with Larry as the Jimmy Stewart character. In that episode, I was an ineffectual-schlep kind of brother, who got divorced three or four times and was a Las Vegas reject.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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Attack politics costs us dearly in terms of insight into the candidates. In a presidential campaign, the focus is so tight that the politicians are afraid to say anything that hasn't been scripted.
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I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.
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Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.
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We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
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My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance.
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Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.
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More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture’s relationship to nature.
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When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.
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What's tough is being good every day.
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Dearest Cecilia, You’d be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is I feel rather light headed and foolish in your presence, Cee, and I don’t think I can blame the heat.
