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Ian Mckellen Quotes

I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else.

Ian Mckellen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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World You Gay I Can Know Actor

To some degree, we're all thinking about the same things. It's the zeitgeist. The trick, in a way, as a writer, is to hope that your interests in some sense link up with the culture around you.

Jennifer Egan

Hope Culture Thinking You Way Same

Lincoln was not an intellectual, but no one in 200 years understood the language of the King James Bible or learned Blackstone's Laws of England, or Cicero, or the language of the Founding Fathers, better than he did.

Michael Ignatieff

King Bible Language Better Years He

I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it to the table with whoever I'm collaborating with.

Amy Lee

Myself Thought Table Way Write Pure

I am not a creature of habit.

Tony Visconti

Habit I Am Creature Am

You don't watch television shows to see people having an easy day. You watch to see them make some of the hardest decisions they have to make. It's enjoyable to see them dealing with those important parts of their lives.

Tom Stevens

Day People Decisions You Television

Comedy is great because there's no overhead.

Ron White

Great Comedy Because Overhead

Beyonce is not above critique. As a feminist herself, I hope Beyonce would welcome it.

Roxane Gay

Hope Welcome Above Herself Would

The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.

Jose Rizal

People Civilization Contact Filipino

When I was growing up in the theater there were all these amazing girls telling me about the guy who broke their heart. And I was always wishing that it was me.

Diego Luna

Heart Amazing Me Growing Up Growing

Everybody wants you to do this thing that you've always been doing forever. That's what they want: they want Martin Scorsese to make the same film two hundred times rather than trying to be something different.

Alison Mosshart

Doing Trying You Want Same Always

I always seemed to disappoint them. They expected me to be different than Henry or exactly like Henry. I was neither.

Peter Fonda

Me Be Different Always Different

The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already exists to improve fuel economy - technology that the automakers refuse to bring into the market despite societal demand.

Sherwood Boehlert

Technology Transportation Oil Limit