Ewan McGregor Quotes

I'm just into making quality stuff if I can, with interesting people and good scripts. But it's very important that it's about something and that it says something. Otherwise, I don't know what the point is, really.

Ewan McGregor

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• My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.

  

  Eddy Cue
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• I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

  

  Danica McKellar
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  • Born

• Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.

  

  Dan Pink
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  • Work
  • Important

• Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • You
  • Rich
  • Will

• Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
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• I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Long
  • Play

• I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Myself
  • Act
  • Others

• I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I'm up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Up
  • Long
  • Try

• I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in particular. I recall one about someone with an illness. But my dedication wasn't really healthy, and it reached the point where I wasn't sleeping. My mum would tell me, 'You need to go outside to get some fresh air.'

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Air

• All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Great
  • You
  • Wish

• We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.

  

  Larry Page
  • Think
  • Best
  • Evil

• Awards are great, as you get to meet up with friends and colleagues from your industry - a sort of reunion.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Up
  • Great
  • Friends

• I'm a hard-luck kind of guy. Usually, things that I hope for don't go my way, so I'm very used to that. In fact, I expect it.

  

  David Eigenberg
  • Hope
  • Guy
  • Luck

• I think the greatest star in American at the moment is Kevin Costner.

  

  Jeremy Brett
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  • Star

• It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.

  

  Eric Bogosian
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Fake

• When I first dropped into L.A., I wanted to be a superhero!

  

  Derek Theler
  • Superhero

• If I was ambitious in my career, then I would have moved to the United States and given it a good go at films.

  

  Keeley Hawes
  • Good
  • Career

• I believe comedy is a really good lens to filter serious issues through. If people are laughing, they don't necessarily realize until they stop laughing that they just took something in that's going to start a conversation.

  

  Kenya Barris
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • People
  • American

• I'm an energetic person. I work hard.

  

  Keith Ellison
  • Work

• As dew leaves the cobweb lightly Threaded with stars, Scattering jewels on the fence And the pasture bars; As dawn leaves the dry grass bright And the tangled weeds Bearing a rainbow gem On each of their seeds; So has your love, my lover, Fresh as the dawn, Made me a shining road To travel on, Set every common sight Of tree or stone Delicately alight For me alone.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Tree
  • Common
  • Lovers

• The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things.

  

  Mia Love
  • Opportunity
  • Citizens
  • Extraordinary

• I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Ambition
  • Sign
  • Baseball Player

• I'm just into making quality stuff if I can, with interesting people and good scripts. But it's very important that it's about something and that it says something. Otherwise, I don't know what the point is, really.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Interesting
  • Quality
  • Point