Ewan McGregor Quotes
I think rehearsal can be important if it's done in a way that works. Often, rehearsal can be a waste of time.
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The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
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I'm a big fan of Georges St-Pierre.
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It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind of thing that makes me feel like - even as it's been bestowed upon me - I must continue to live up to what it means... Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.
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When I was young my heart was young then, too. And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do.
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Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity.
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Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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We may be living at that moment, on the cusp, when we go from being a species that feels a kind of loneliness in the cosmos to actually one sometime in the not too distant future being able to confirm the existence of other intelligent life.
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It's big for us because we know the other teams are right around us for the playoffs. (But) we are not approaching games like that. We are just trying to win the game. We don't feel like we need to settle for the eighth or seventh seed, we feel like we can get as high as we want to.
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I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.
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You've committed no sins, just mistakes.
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It's a challenge and I'm anxious to see how we rise to that. It's one thing when you are hunting. It's another thing when you are hunted.
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
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I think we were probably playing live for about 12 months before we got a recording deal.
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I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual.
