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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Wherever I find love I will accept it.
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I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.
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You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle!
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Working with Marilyn Monroe on The Misfits (1961) nearly gave me a heart attack. I have never been happier when a film ended.
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In the case of those solids, whether of earth, or rock, which enclose on all sides and contain crystals, selenites, marcasites, plants and their parts, bones and the shells of animals, and other bodies of this kind which are possessed of a smooth surface, these same bodies had already become hard at the time when the matter of the earth and rock containing them was still fluid. And not only did the earth and rock not produce the bodies contained in them, but they did not even exist as such when those bodies were produced in them.
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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.
