Ian Mcewan Quotes
I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.
Quotes to Explore
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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I kinda wanted to play receiver more.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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It's about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It's about relationships, and the bottom line is, that's why you care.
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I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically the song 'Summertime in England.' It's 15 minutes long, so to make it through the entire song is a real task unto itself, but Van has that emotional payoff that makes even his most tiresome songs more powerful than most people's entire catalog.
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The military alone cannot end the conflict in Afghanistan. On that much nearly everyone can agree, offering a rare island of consensus among sides otherwise divided on the question of how and when America's longest-ever war should wind down.
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I spent most of my time with adults because although my parents were older when they had me, they're really like teenagers. I sort of became the third musketeer.
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Once a few Facebook employees put together a promising idea and start a company, that's very exciting to people. I happen to think being a Facebook employee is really correlated with good ideas.
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Nobody wanted to dance, when i had a lot of time on my hands, now i have a lot of hands on my time, and everybody wants to be a friend of mine, wo wo.
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I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.
