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Something Quotes by Ian Mcewan
- It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after…
- Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
- What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.
- What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You…
- One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have…
- A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.
- Finally, you had to measure yourself by other people - there really was nothing else. every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone taught you something…
- There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or…
- He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die.
- He was looking at her with amused suspicion. There was something between them, and even she had to acknowledge that a tame remark about the…
- Something has happened, hasn't it? ... It's like being up close to something so large you don't even see it. Even now, I'm not sure…
- My needs were simple I didn't bother much with themes or felicitous phrases and skipped fine descriptions of weather, landscapes and interiors. I wanted characters…
- I turned the pages so fast. And I suppose I was, in my mindless way, looking for a something, version of myself, a heroine I…
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- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
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- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. — Giorgio Armani
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J. J. Abrams
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen