Ewan McGregor Quotes
I think my home is in that sort of the part of cinema that's disappeared is where I lived, that sort of mid-budget you know, drama. I suppose that's what I am known for.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
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Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.
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Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience.
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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
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I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.
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Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.
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Once you accept that we're all imperfect, it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.
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There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen.
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You talk about Steve Jobs when he came out with the iPhone, and everyone thought it was amazing: you touch it and move the screen.
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My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
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I don't know if speaking to a therapist is right for everyone.
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When you encounter certain things in the world, the evidence for certain things, you realize that you have come upon somethin that you may very well not be equal to and I think that this is one of them things. When you've said that it's real and not just in your head I'm not all that sure what it is you have said.
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What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.
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The deep, seen with depth, is surface.
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In the world of independent filmmaking, you're never quite sure what's happening when and where.
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I think my home is in that sort of the part of cinema that's disappeared is where I lived, that sort of mid-budget you know, drama. I suppose that's what I am known for.
