Ian Mcewan Quotes
All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.

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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.
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Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.
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There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway and the canal, sometimes it almost looks like a de Chirico painting, with the intense angles of the shadows and everything.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying.
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The feeble soul merely whines and complains.
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In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.
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Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.
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Battles are won in the hearts of men.
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I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even artists, want personal recognition. We want to be recognized for something, for what we did. I'd rather my song be recognized for what it's doing and that's important. It's not so important how many people know me.
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Oh, there is nothing better than intelligent conversation except thrashing about in bed with a naked girl and Egmont Light Italic.
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Avril Lavigne sold a massive amount of albums and she has to top that with her next release. We have four great albums behind us, and it's not going to be as hard to live up to that.
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I feel like anything I've ever done, I've been strongly advised not to do.
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All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.