Ian Mcewan Quotes
I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers will have no difficulty assimilating it into what you’ve done before.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
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Young audience, in the age group of 16-33 years, constitutes the main viewership of Bollywood films.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.
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There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall.
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We are all more capable than we think we are.
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The country's present supply of foreign news depends largely on how best a number of dry goods merchants in New York think they can sell underwear.
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We live in the countryside, 15 minutes from the closest town, so I would never have time to drive and go somewhere. So I have a personal trainer come to my house, normally three times a week, and we do circuit training depending on what I need.
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I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers will have no difficulty assimilating it into what you’ve done before.
