Ian Mcewan Quotes
I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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I went to Antarctica on a science research boat just to sort of clear my head.
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Moisturizing every night is important. When you're 50 or 60, it's going to show if you don't take care of it. You have to prepare when you're young, so you still have that healthy, glowing skin when you're 60 or 70.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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I would say my career is in a very good place. I'm in a place of a lot of hope for what's next. I see something great, but I'm not quite there.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.
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Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.
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Life is very fleeting. It’s important to be gentle and optimistic. We look behind and think what we’ve done in this life has been good. It was simple; it was modest. Everyone creates their own story and moves on. That’s it. I don’t feel particularly important. What we create is not important. We’re very insignificant.
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If I were a painter, I would paint beautiful bodies - I would paint nipples, and I would paint Bibles. Am I going to say, 'I'm not going to paint this woman's neck because people will think I just want to lick on necks?' Please! That's not what art is about.
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If we don’t have the Word of God as the foundation of what we believe, we will have a faulty footing—it will not stand against the elements that will come against us. God has designed both our physical and spiritual lives to be ordered by one key attribute upon which the fruit of the Spirit is based—that foundation is love.
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I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.
