Ian Mcewan Quotes
In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree... Leon turned out to be a spineless, grinning idiot.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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I don't like to direct myself.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.
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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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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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I don't think there will be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime.
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White liberals face this cognitive dissonance: if they decide that America is ready for a black president and back Obama, they would also be forced to surrender or at least modify decades of convictions about American bias.
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Even I admit I may have peaked too soon.
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I know Chandler is similar to me. But if you watched my life for a week, there would be many more boring parts.
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I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.
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In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree... Leon turned out to be a spineless, grinning idiot.
