Ian Mckellen Quotes

I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't.

Ian Mckellen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat.

Joe Henderson

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I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.

Matthew Vaughn

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I spend a lot of time wandering around the countryside just looking at people, seeing how everything fits together.

John Sandford

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My dad is a singer. He used to sing in nightclubs, or pizza joints.

Amy Adams

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I always have a lot of hand cream.

Sigrid

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Leave America and you'll find that the consumers in many other countries enjoy watching advertising. Not because the products are better, but because the ads are produced to be entertaining. Sometimes they are funny. Sometimes they are dramatic. Sometimes they are just beautiful.

Simon Sinek

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College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.

Robert B. Parker

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You must learn to perceive as your self that which lies outside you. Looking only within oneself leads to a hardening in oneself, to a higher egotism.

Rudolf Steiner

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There is land in Colombia, fortunately, for everybody. We don't have to expropriate land from people who are cultivating that land legally.

Juan Manuel Santos

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I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days.

Christopher Plummer

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Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

Constantin Brancusi

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Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves.

Arrian

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