Ian Mcewan Quotes

What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.

Ian Mcewan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: June 21, 1948

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I shop for clothes when I have time - early in the morning or late at night.

Jessica Seinfeld

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I like any film where the female characters are complex and have a functioning imperfection.

Jenny Slate

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I am like many of the women I have played onscreen.

Maureen O'Hara

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I'm proud to be American and very happy that women like my brand.

Tory Burch

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What I am is what you get. My wife will tell me all the time, 'You probably shouldn't say that.' But the fact of the matter is, when you get under my dander, I have to express myself.

Ron Stallworth

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I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mine or anything like that. I think the inspiration for my writing came largely from my father and the joy that life in books represented to me.

Mary Gordon

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Sometimes I think it's better to be a diva.

Julia Barr

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I didn't know much about the Mexican gray wolf before January 2011, when we contributed a flight in our Pilatus PC12 to the effort to re-establish the wolf in the forests of Arizona and New Mexico.

Joy Covey

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Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

Derek Bailey

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Is the opposite of light entertainment meant to be dark and heavy?

Denis Norden

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As a child, I sat in the back of the bus. I was told, time and time again, that God's potential didn't exist in people like me. I've spent my life fighting to change that. And, from the first day when I met Hillary Clinton, I've known that she's someone who cares just as much and fights just as hard.

Donna Brazile

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Having more than one legal system running is not a sign of a healthy or inclusive society. It is just one less thing that people have in common.

Deeyah Khan

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