Ian Mcewan Quotes
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.
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I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.
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'Giving 2.0' frames giving as a learning experience and encourages everyone to make giving a part of your year-round life.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.
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I mean, I would have loved to have kept on being a big television star. If that's the way things would have broke, I would have loved to have done that. I just didn't really want to continue and be someone who took whatever was offered.
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I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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Maybe at the end of my figure skating career, I'll be able to have just the one game I always dreamed of having. I've still got the skill, I think. I'd have to work on my stick-handling skills, but the speed and my hockey smarts are still there.
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The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
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One who walks from fire to fire dies from the cold.
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I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.
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I've always felt that even though a man was not a Christian, he still has to know the truth some way or another. Or if he was a Christian, he could know the truth. The truth itself doesn't have any name on it to me. And each man has to find this for himself, I think.
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Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
