Ian Mcewan Quotes
Who you get, and how it works out - there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your conscious choice of a mate, that no one and no amount of talking can untangle it if it turns out unhappily.
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Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.
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An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because somebody comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for less than he or she should be paid.
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Turkey, a powerful and reliable ally of the U.S. through the Cold War, appears to be coming unmoored from Europe and the West and is becoming increasingly sectarian, autocratic, and nationalistic.
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I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.
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I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
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I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.
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No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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I would love to go to Ladakh - there are beautiful monasteries there and because I am from Himachal. I would love to go to Paris. I haven't been to New York, which I have heard a lot about. And, I would love to go to Kanyakumari. I think that would be interesting!
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Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
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If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?
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Even if I'm talking about something that's negative, I look at it as putting my mistakes out there for people to learn from it.
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I don't like the word "villain." It's too reductive. Calling someone a villain makes it too easy to ignore all the factors that went into someone making the choices they do.
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Who you get, and how it works out - there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your conscious choice of a mate, that no one and no amount of talking can untangle it if it turns out unhappily.
