Ewan McGregor Quotes
You know, an audition usually is you come in and read the scene and if you're lucky, you get to read it twice.
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You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.
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I like power and I like to use it.
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I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.
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We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.
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Practice the brotherhood, love, and cooperation insistently enjoined by hundreds of Qur'anic verses and traditions of the Prophet!
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In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
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Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.
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My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.
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My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
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I've loved cartoons all along. Most people outgrow that when they hit 10 or 12, I guess, but I never did. I'm not sure why.
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If I don't go to the gym for a week, I just get thinner and thinner.
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That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income.
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The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.
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I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.
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To kill yourself for earning a salary is not worth it.
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I don't want to live my life to entertain other people. I have other things that I'd like to do.
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The stuff I write with Joe Lo Truglio tends to lean towards horror-comedy and horror.
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When you get older, keeping the private stuff private seems less important.
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Every body type is different - that's what makes you unique. What makes you special is you, and you are different from the next person.
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People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
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I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?
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I had never really written songs for anyone before. With [Broken] Social Scene, you're writing songs for others and your passing them around and exchanging things, but for a man who has the history that Andy Kim had, and has lived the life that he's had, you see such a youthful aspect of how he just wanted to create something again.
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Every audition is different, but I get incredibly nervous and insecure and worked up for however long I have to prep - that's when I get to spin. But you're not allowed to spin once you enter the room. Doubt really can't enter the room when you're auditioning - unless it's part of the character.
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You know, an audition usually is you come in and read the scene and if you're lucky, you get to read it twice.
