Ian Mcewan Quotes
It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.
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I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.
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Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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There are a lot of people who can slide on talent their whole lives; they're just naturally gifted. I've never considered myself one of those people. I enjoy outworking the opposition.
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When I moved in, I said, 'I don't care how this makes me look or sound: I am converting one of these bedrooms into a shoe closet.' It's become more of a dressing room, but one wall is shoes in their perfect cubbies.
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Most of my work is based in Hyderabad, so it makes sense that I own a house here. Another reason I want a home here is because I want to have my own kitchen so that I can cook, since I hate food from hotels.
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But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.
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I consider myself sexy. But the sexy image doesn't bother me, and I don't think it detracts from my singing.
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I'm young but I'm not stupid.
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The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
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As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.
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Happiness inspires productivity.
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The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
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If you've ever had a brush with cancer, you're always thinking a pain might be something serious.
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If you would bring the magic out of your mind - the magic which will transform everything - you must believe.
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It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.
