Ewan McGregor Quotes
Everyone has to understand what we're saying to one another and there's no point in me thinking the line means this and the person I'm speaking to thinks it means something else. So there's a certain amount of analyzing of text that's of course necessary.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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I dig all kinds of competition.
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'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.
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We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.
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You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
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This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.
Garry Kasparov -
I give the degrees of things seen by the eye as the musician does of the sounds heard by the ear.
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The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down.
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I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular.
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I was in a band when I was in high school, and I was bitten by the performance bug, if anything else.
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Republicans cannot continue to oppose every Hispanic issue.
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When I wrapped 'Falling Skies,' I took a trip to the Caribbean to visit my grandma, which is great. I was out there for two weeks in Grenada. Then after that, I went to Poland for two and a half weeks to go watch some of the European soccer championships.
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Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.
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Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it.
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If we're going to have debates, let's have real debates.
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The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.
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I don't want to name names because they'd be mad at me if I did, but people who are significant novelists can't get published by real publishers at this point, or have to go through two years of trying after writing a novel that's taken them five or six years and simply can't get the thing in print. Or it gets in print and it doesn't get reviewed in the New York Times Book Review and disappears without a trace. I mean, it's terrifying. I don't know how anybody can stand it. It's such an enormous amount of work and the economics of it are really quite brutal.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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The barrels were on a platform and to keep the platform level someone had shoved a quarter-inch tape box underneath it. I pulled it out. Covered in old beer and sweat and condensation, it was one of the master tapes of Joy Division's debut album, Unknown Pleasures. It made me smile. It was an absolutely perfect metaphor for the Haçienda. Joy Division had held the whole fucking thing up.
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Everyone has to understand what we're saying to one another and there's no point in me thinking the line means this and the person I'm speaking to thinks it means something else. So there's a certain amount of analyzing of text that's of course necessary.
