Ian Mckellen Quotes

The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.

Ian Mckellen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I do mourn my characters. I wrote an essay once where I was sure that far back in a marsh there was a hummock - a little hill of hardwoods - and an old farm house, where all the heroines in my novels lived together with all my beloved dead dogs. I've discussed this with my therapist, naturally. He says it's okay in fair amounts.

Jim Harrison

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And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.

Joan Collins

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It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

Robert Hughes

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Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.

Jef I. Richards

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I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte.

Mary Ellen Mark

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I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.

Mary Quant

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We can never completely prevent another tragedy like the Boston Marathon attacks from happening. But every American should ask themselves if their community is as prepared as it could be.

Martin O'Malley

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You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise.

Mike Davidson

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Nobody understood how to use television for his own purposes better than Nixon, despite his poor showing against John F. Kennedy in the televised presidential debate.

Michael Korda

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I would spend months and months looking for a sound. I had to do that, or I wouldn't feel the extreme emotions I was feeling in my heart.

Michael Masser

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Not everyone who goes to Washington becomes Washington.

Jason Kander

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If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.

Diane Cilento

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