Ian Mcewan Quotes

I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.

Ian Mcewan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I don't think my wheelhouse is comfortable in Wall Street. My wheelhouse is small-town America.

Jimmy John Liautaud

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Obviously, stats are important tools, but I think there's something behind those things; somewhere along the way, you've got to try to look inside someone.

Jerry West

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I think it's good to have switched to a much more visual world and that people are not all that interested in words.

Jerry Della Femina

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I love my family, I love my relatives. One special request I have is for the media back in Taiwan to kind of give them their space because they can't even go to work without being bombarded and people following them.

Jeremy Lin

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I used to run home from school, pick up my guitar, and lock myself in my room and play.

Angus Young

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I've loved to be a part of anything, having an opportunity to entertain, to be a part of a film, or just continue to do what I'm doing, I'm so happy, so just making town after town, doing my thing, but if I have that opportunity to star in a film or be an extra, I don't care; its all a learning experience for me.

Roman Reigns

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If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

Rudyard Kipling

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I don't like boys. They're kind of annoying.

Michelle Wie

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As for my writing process, there is one truth I have discovered after writing some twenty-plus books: Not every book is the same, but the middle of every book is where I really begin to question my choice of vocations. The beginning and end is usually fairly clear to me, but that middle just sucks the life right out of me.

Julia London

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Freedom of expression is essential for feminists and dissidents in the Muslim world.

Deeyah Khan

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I was at a point of asking God whether acting was what He really wanted me to do. Oprah Winfrey came to one of my workshops, and a couple of months later, she reached out to Uncle BeBe, who co-wrote 'Born For This.' Oprah told him she was interested in me for the role of Charity on 'Greenleaf' and asked him to help her contact me.

Deborah Joy Winans

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Whenever I try to do something, I figure out what other people aren't doing or how can I do it different or how can I stand out.

Clinton Sparks

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