Ian Mcewan Quotes
I do have a very strong sense that most of the terrible things in life happen suddenly and unpredictably, and certainly can sweep you off in different directions, and that is always of interest to a novelist.
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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I never left doo wop.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.
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Predominantly I'm an Adidas guy who walks around in sports gear all the time because there's always a ball right next to me somewhere. I do a lot of sports, but I do enjoy wearing a lot of suits.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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A lot of cats are not that social.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
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All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
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As each year and debate passes, more broadband companies will start to see that their future lies not in restricting an open Internet but in betting on it.
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To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment.
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The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result?
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I believe that President Obama is here for a reason, but that doesn't mean that he has to stay there next year. The American people have an opportunity to have a say and so I think we just have to do what we think is right - and see what the outcome is. God's got a plan.
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What can separate us from the love of God? Not life, not death, nothing in the present, nothing in the future. Not angels, not demons nothing is able to stand between us and his loving plans because you can't stop them.
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I do have a very strong sense that most of the terrible things in life happen suddenly and unpredictably, and certainly can sweep you off in different directions, and that is always of interest to a novelist.
