Ian Mckellen Quotes

I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be at his most insane, he is actually understanding the world for the first time.

Ian Mckellen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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When I go, I go hard.

Jillian Michaels

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My journey through life has led me through both light and dark places, and it's because of those experiences that I have learned how to work through my character defects and to help others do the same.

Jessie Pavelka

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For Jews, the paradigmatic convert is the biblical Ruth, who sought not only a new relationship with God but also a new nationality.

Meir Soloveichik

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I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.

Robert Smith

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Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by the ancients: The Greeks identified it with Ares, the god of war; the Babylonians named it after Nergal, god of the underworld. To the ancient Chinese, it was Ying-huo, the fire planet.

John Updike

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I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.

Amanda Beard

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Whatever we do as a band, none of us can do as individuals. We all know that, whatever we have gone through with each other and as a band.

Tommy Lee

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What I didn't expect was 'VIP' becoming something of a cult and one of my biggest hits.

Dhanush

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There's no doubt that motherhood is the best thing in my life. It's all that really matters.

Courteney Cox

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I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.

Clint Eastwood

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History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

Philip Roth

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I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.

Sharon Olds

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