Ewan McGregor Quotes
I'm a father of four girls and I know very much about the relationship between a father and his daughters.
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How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.
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Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar's comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists are so blessed: they can make other people happy.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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Bullies always have another target.
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Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes, let's do it.'
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The gospel music and doo-wop is what has informed me personally.
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You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.
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It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.
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A doubtful balance is made between truth and pleasure, and... the knowledge of one and the feeling of the other stir up a combat the success of which is very uncertain, since, in order to judge of it, it would be necessary to know all that passes in the innermost spirit of the man, of which man himself is scarcely ever conscious.
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Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.
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Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.
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I left Kurdistan in April 2003 with the peshmerga, following their excited advance as Saddam's forces crumbled. First Kirkuk, then Mosul - where looters broke into the city museum and seized its Parthian sculptures - then Tikrit. I reported from Baghdad in month-long stints until the end of 2004.
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A strong story can move me to tears, and it doesn't matter whether it's a science-fiction or fantasy world. It's about what happens to a person, the choices they make. That's what's interesting.
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We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel.
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Barack Obama's large contributor was Goldman Sachs - same thing on the Republican side. If you go to both their conventions, you see the same lobbyists paying off both sides so they win either way.
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I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music.
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It's not that I think the Nazis were right, or anything. It's just that, we weren't there, we don't know.
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Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.
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Most calves used by the dairy industry have their horns BURNED or GOUGED out of their heads.
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My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.
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I'm a father of four girls and I know very much about the relationship between a father and his daughters.
