Ewan McGregor Quotes

I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual.

Ewan McGregor

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• Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Real
  • Home
  • Night

• No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Time
  • Good
  • Car

• In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

  

  Quintilian
  • Experience
  • More
  • Precept

• I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Music
  • Art
  • Reading

• The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Walk
  • Stand

• Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Years

• Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Science
  • Profession
  • Ethical

• I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • World
  • Free
  • Wish

• All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Great
  • Admire
  • Guess

• Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Like
  • U.S.
  • Professor

• I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • You
  • Living
  • Year

• After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Work
  • Challenge
  • Impact

• The spirit of the four hobbits in 'Lord of the Rings,' I suppose I miss that.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Spirit
  • Lord
  • Rings

• Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. A real player. And how he came up with a book that appeals to kids ages 8-13 baffles me. He's an unbelievably kind man with a great family.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Up
  • Great
  • Real

• Yeah, I can understand that. All the splendor of the Taj Mahal, without the inconvenience and expense of traveling to India.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks

• Humankind is an insignificant part of existence.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan

• The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act.

  

  David Suzuki

• I've attended many concerts where I felt let down and I was wishing it would be something else. Not that it's their duty to please me, but at the same time, I think a lot about what it's like through the eyes of the consumer, the fan. I want not to pander to the audience, but to be aware of them.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Time
  • Eyes

• A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless . . . all a woman has to do is put you on hold.

  

  Marlo Thomas

• Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Experience

• Nothing is more powerful than the black church experience. A good choir and a good sermon in the black church, it's pretty hard not to be move and be transported.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Pretty

• By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean experience better than Shakespeare, whereas any decent eighteen-year-old student of physics will know more physics than Newton.

  

  C.P. Snow
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Science

• Wonder what it’s like to have a peaceful life,” Ron sighed, as evening after evening they struggled through all the extra homework they were getting.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Wonder
  • Peaceful

• I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Experience
  • Acting
  • Instinctual