Ewan McGregor Quotes
When I would knock about the town in London, I was doing it with my head down, walking very quickly and it had become the norm for me because I'm recognized there. And people are not unkind but occasionally there's a sort of British who do you think you are sort of, I don't really think I'm anybody. I just go about my normal day. But sometimes you're faced with that.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.
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I was raised doing martial arts.
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Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn't have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.
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As is the case for many people with multiple sclerosis, the effects of weakened limbs, spasticity and fatigue had cut my working life in half. Yet not a single GP, neurologist or nurse, and none of the MS websites, had mentioned the use of neuroenhancers for the treatment of neurological fatigue.
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I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.
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You've always got to have the right blend of colour. You'd be silly to match a yellow t-shirt with a light green pair of trousers, you know? You can wear different colours at the same time, and as long as they blend with each other then it works. That's what I like.
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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
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I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.
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To be honest, the core reason why I became an actor was that I didn't want to go to school. That's where it started. I hated opening my history books and my English books, but then, of course, you grow older. I went to film school in New York, and that's when you really realize that you have to grow up now. It's not child's play anymore.
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With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.
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I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.
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I would argue heavily that the time that has been allocated to social used to come from television, and people are benefitting from it. People who are saying, 'Aw, you're spending all your time on Facebook, or all your time on Twitter,' I'd like to understand what the person used to do with that time.
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The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.
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All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.
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I love Dior and Commes des Garcons, but I can't really afford them.
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If David Bowie wants, I'll put him in my phone book.
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I can do something physically the other guy can't. I know the other guy has not dedicated himself the way I did.
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As a former student put it: “In a liberry it’s hard to avoid reading."
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Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.
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I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.
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When I would knock about the town in London, I was doing it with my head down, walking very quickly and it had become the norm for me because I'm recognized there. And people are not unkind but occasionally there's a sort of British who do you think you are sort of, I don't really think I'm anybody. I just go about my normal day. But sometimes you're faced with that.
