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Ian Mckellen Quotes

I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: english
Birth: May 25, 1939

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Person Write Pencil Out Only Ink

Throughout my career, when I have been rejected, there was sometimes subtext, and it was this: People will not read your work because these are not universal stories.

Work People Career Sometimes Will

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.

John Frankenheimer

Great Movies Last Assistant Seven

We don't need legitimacy. We exist. Therefore we are legitimate.

Need Exist Legitimate Therefore

Once you establish what activities your company needs to do, the next question is, 'How do these activities get accomplished?' i.e. what resources do I need to make the activities happen?

You Question Need Company Resources

The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.

Soul Greatness Ambition Aim Literary

Originally, the burden of proof was on physicists to prove that time travel was possible. Now the burden of proof is on physicists to prove there must be a law forbidding time travel.

Time Travel Law Burden Now Possible

About once a decade, it becomes necessary to remind Americans again that Ulysses S. Grant was a great man, indeed a giant figure. The usual way to try to do this is by publishing a thumping big biography, and let me say that there is nothing wrong with this, although it still hasn't worked.

Great Man Me Great Man Wrong Say

Philip's story is the most interesting in the royal family - his background is the opposite of what you'd think. Everyone has this idea that Philip is this bumbling, deliberately posh sort of man who says the wrong thing.

Family Man Story Think Interesting

There's nothing that irritates Americans more than the fact that some members of Congress think they are entitled to their own set of rules. And it's true - too many people in Washington live in an alternate reality.

Claire McCaskill

Live People Think Reality Rules

What's the trick to writing a good bad guy? Well, for me, it's always been the idea that you pit yourself against authority, you know? I think that's what it takes - and then you can write villainous characters.

Brian Azzarello

Good Yourself Me Writing Think You

So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I'm thin. I've got my hair. I'm well off. I survived, you know.

Hair Thought You Know Hold Well

I have the greatest life in the world because I created it.

Life World Greatest Because Created

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