Ian McShane Quotes
Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
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In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
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Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.
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I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.
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Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!
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That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.
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I have been reorganizing and restructuring AOL: changing the strategy and rebuilding it from scratch in the worst economy in a generation.
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Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
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My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.
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It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
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Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
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In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.
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I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.
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Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?
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Reimbursement may be sometimes small, but then great ability can never be measured by the tickets at the gate.
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I paint by all the daylight we have and that is little enough, less perhaps than you have by much... imagine to yourself how a purl must look through a burnt glass.
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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
