Ian Mcewan Quotes
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
Tammy Bruce -
Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
Kate Christensen -
Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
Samantha Power -
I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
Adam Brody -
A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
Tate Donovan -
You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
Jack Kemp
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
Venus Williams -
It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
Washed Out -
I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.
Yelawolf -
I was born in India - but never really lived there.
Aasif Mandvi -
When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
E. L. Doctorow -
I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
Gary Johnson
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
Walt Alston -
People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
Abby Wambach -
On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.
Sam Shepard -
My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.
Karen Mills -
All beautiful things in this world are because of women.
Kangana Ranaut -
I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
P. J. Harvey
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So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.
Abraham Verghese -
I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you've got to get off your backside and you've got to do all the crap stuff, too.
Jay Kay Jamiroquai -
Mankind has had ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well.
T. E. Lawrence -
Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She's ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.
Billy Joel -
What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
Ian Mcewan