Ewan McGregor Quotes
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people.
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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
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I am pretty self-indulgent.
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My family are huge 'Star Wars' fans.
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It's not ideal to always be one eye on the Blackberry and two arms around my children. For the sake of mothers out there who don't have the Blackberry but do have the children and are hoping someone will be raising their voice on their behalf, it's a great privilege.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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I am fighting my natural body shape to do what I do.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
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I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try!
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Hawaii is absolutely beautiful.
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Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.
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African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.
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Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.
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Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.
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There can be no assumption that today's majority is 'right' and the Amish and others like them are 'wrong.' A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.
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I like everything I do to have some kind of meaning.
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Nowadays, the term 'selling out' doesn't exist anymore because everyone is trying to make a living.
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Don't be a salad. Be the best god damn broccoli you can ever be.
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A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
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I've been thinking lately about immortality. What it means to be remembered, what I want to be remembered for, certain questions concerning memory and fame. I love watching old movies. I watch the faces of long-dead actors on the screen, and I think about how they'll never truly die. I know that's a cliché but it happens to be true. Not just the famous ones who everyone knows, the Clark Gables, the Ava Gardners, but the bit players, the maid carrying the tray, the butler, the cowboys in the bar, the third girl from the left in the nightclub. They're all immortal to me. First we only want to be seen, but once we're seen, that's not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.
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I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people.
