Ian Mcewan Quotes
The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.
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Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.
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We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.
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There's no such thing as a cheap laugh.
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But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.
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If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference.
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The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.
