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 trust the political system to be what it is. It's a structure to keep the country running, a boat to get us [citizens] from one side to the other, and it has the country's best interests at heart. Not the people's.
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I trust that absolutes have gradations.
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I never believed 9/11, because I had engineering training at GA Tech, and I could tell when a building is being blown up by explosives. Any fool can look at those films and see the buildings aren't falling down, they're blowing up.
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I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.
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I am a bit of a goody-goody. Not that there aren't times when I think, I was kind of an (ass) today. I work in a world in which people are really catered to; someone will come up to me and say, "Is it OK if this person's makeup is done before yours for the premiere?"
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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.
