Ewan McGregor Quotes
I loved being in Trainspotting and having to dive into the filthiest toilet in Scotland.
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Middle-aged women on telly is a bit of a hot topic - before, we were 27 to 37, and now we're 40 to 50. You do notice as you get older... you go past 35, and suddenly you're playing baddies.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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It is the very survival of the streets that makes children pick up guns in Somalia, not some older, wide-eyed rebel leader. My intimate experiences during these years are something which I have shared with people through my music but am very careful about how they are addressed.
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As a government leader, I'm not going to sit on the sidelines and watch all these other sectors innovate. I'm going to do everything I can as a leader to be in that innovation, to be a provocateur for that innovation.
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If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.
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Cinematography speaks to everything that women do inherently well: It's multitasking, it's empathy, and it's channeling visuals into human emotion.
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I wanted to try to make songs that worked as songs, not just as productions. People wanted me to do a solo acoustic session, they were like "Can you play song on the piano?" and I was like "Not really. It doesn't really work." I wanted to write songs that would work in a variation of instrumentation.
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I believe Chairman Cummings will institute the process of subpoenaing, chairman Cummings is conferring with other members of House Oversight Committee right now, but so far I believe the overwhelming consensus is we should move forward with a subpoena.
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You have to pretend that you're not bothered by your record leaked early. So that's the tack that I'm taking. It's like if you're working in a store and people come and openly shoplift from you, and you're not allowed to say anything about it. Instead, you're supposed to smile and go, "Hope you enjoy that!" I'm not going to complain about it, I don't get to make the rules. It's just really funny how that works.
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You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.
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Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls.
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I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.
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I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
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Why not say it? I'm bursting out of my cocoon. It was all too nice in the past - it never knocked anyone out. But last year... my first opening night at the Met - I looked out and heard all that cheering... for me... And I loved it.
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I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua.
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I loved being in Trainspotting and having to dive into the filthiest toilet in Scotland.
