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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We're going to have more kids playing, and we're going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.
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I had a blast. 'Shark Tank' embodies the American Dream. If you watch the show at home, you find yourself constantly hollering at the Sharks. Being able to sit next to them and call them out in real time was quite a privilege.
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Prayer and dependence on God has been our history. How unfortunate it is now that an unaccountable and unelected and misguided judge from Wisconsin, Judge Barbara Crabb, has declared National Days of Prayer - established by the Congress - to be unconstitutional.
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God is a peaceful ground of being. He is the energy of nonviolence. To ask Him to help is to ask Him to turn us into profoundly peaceful people.
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Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.
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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.