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Ian Mckellen Quotes

In Singapore, Malcolm X type of activity would be extremely difficult because the government can be very harsh on lawbreakers.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Government Difficult Singapore Would

I guess I'm a real fan of older music, and that's what shaped my taste and the way I sing.

Music Way Real Taste Sing Fan

Motherhood is a dream. It really is absolutely amazing.

Jessica Simpson

Amazing Mom Motherhood Dream Really

I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It was occupied territory I was entering.

World Famous Not Knowing Know Names

African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.

Matthew Desmond

Women American High African American

I think the War on Terror has succeeded in creating more terror, more terrorists, a less safe America, and a less safe world.

War World Think America Creating

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.

Art Trust Values My Own Own Critic

Some people hate the remixes, some people think it's cool. If you don't like that type of music and just like rock, you probably won't like it. But if you are open to more things, you just might dig it.

Music Hate People Cool Think You

As a songwriter, metaphor is instinctual.

Songwriter Metaphor Instinctual

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

Michel de Montaigne

Vanity More Write Obvious Than

As described in 'The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,' the cyclical rebirth of caste in America is a recurring racial nightmare.

Michelle Alexander

Age America New Jim Crow Racial

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

Beauty Influence Language Kind Way

People who know your work and know your personality, they know your strengths and weaknesses. A director like Guillermo del Toro, he knows more about me than I do. I trust him when he tells me what part I'm going to be playing in something, because he's envisioned that that can only be done by me. He knows it.

Work Trust Personality People Me

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