Ian Mcewan Quotes
I find it very difficult to talk about unwritten works. It's never useful to start putting words casually around the flimsiest of notions. I finished Saturday only in late November and I'm now in the rather pleasant stage of traveling, reading and waiting.
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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
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I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'
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I really like clever men who challenge you.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.
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We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house.
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You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.
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My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.
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The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock somebody else down to feel tall.
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Grace is power as well as pardon.
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I've always loved acoustic music because I've always loved to hear someone's words or just watch them and just get into them. The distancing thing about rock is it's so assaulting.
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The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on page 50, or page 150 and yes, on page 850.
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I find it very difficult to talk about unwritten works. It's never useful to start putting words casually around the flimsiest of notions. I finished Saturday only in late November and I'm now in the rather pleasant stage of traveling, reading and waiting.
