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.
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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.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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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!
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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.
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
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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.
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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.'
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All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.
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We don't want to be our own niche. We're filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row are we going to talk about the fact that we make films and we are women? Enough already.
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.
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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.
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We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
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George Wallace is gone; Bull Connor is dead. He's not coming back.
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Awards are great, as you get to meet up with friends and colleagues from your industry - a sort of reunion.
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A coach told my mum I had talent and I would make a very good skater.
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No news is good news. No journalists is even better.
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I don't tend to redraft, I will try to tidy it up, but basically I feel what I write down first has got the impetus, it may be clumsy, it may be repetitive, but a good editor can take that out. That first writing bit is the best thing you will do.
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I really like working, the opportunity to work with good people and to play interesting parts.
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If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you'd think only bad things were interesting. If we don't think positive, what's the use? It's a lot more fun, you know.
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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.
