Ewan McGregor Quotes
I was forced to make the decision between art and music which are the only two things I liked as opposed to being able to do them both because that's what I was interested in.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.
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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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I was watching 'Pulp Fiction' when we were making 'Now and Then'. I didn't care about 'Now and Then,' you know?
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There's no possible way you can get what you want.
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I would love to study cultures and people.
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I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake.
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For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.
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Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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I kept my head; I mean, I've never been one of those people who ended up in the gutter with sick in my hair.
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But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.
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Anybody with my background in the airline business who is not deaf is a fraud.
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I get hit on so much it's not normal. I didn't realize so many men liked redheads.
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That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?
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Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.
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People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.
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I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. ... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.
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If you feel good about yourself, even putting a little bit of makeup - I don't usually wear makeup, but you know, someone said to me, 'Why don't you spend that extra five minutes to make yourself feel good?' And it's just a bit of self-care so you can go out and face the world, and I think we need that right now.
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And out of the blue, I got a call from an editor friend at Knopf and she said that they were interested in putting out an update for their vintage paperback line. So I was more than thrilled and it was suggested that perhaps I could do a 1,000 word new introduction covering what's happened with the whole Warhol thing since 1990 when the first edition hardcover came out and, uh, that was about August 1st and I sat down at my computer here in East Hampton and on on August 30th I'd written almost 10,000 words!
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I was forced to make the decision between art and music which are the only two things I liked as opposed to being able to do them both because that's what I was interested in.
