Ian Mcewan Quotes
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
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With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.
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Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.
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French citizenship should be either inherited or merited.
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Money doesn't make people happy. People make people happy.
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There's a natural human compulsion to chase after freedom and then to actually hand it over as fast as possible and get away from it.
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The mother-in-law came round last week. It was absolutely pouring down. So I opened the door and I saw her there and I said, 'Mother, don't just stand there in the rain. Go home.'
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I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
