Ewan McGregor Quotes
If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.
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I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.
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My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
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I love to travel. This is the time for me. When will I do it if not now?
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If Russia did interfere in our election - and, by most accounts, they did - then it is imperative for the health of our democracy to have a thorough and unbiased investigation into the matter.
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But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.
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Vegetarians should have that moral basis-that a man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows.
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I devalued the peso solely looking after the poor.
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'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.'
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We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves.
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Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.
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I have the luck to choose what to do in my life.
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It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.
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I'm not particularly attention-seeking.
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Older consumers don't want to be treated like teenagers; what's more, they don't want to believe they fall into any niche at all.
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Usually when you act, you know where you're going, where the point is.
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If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.
