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If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it. ↗


— Peter McWilliams


#getting #involved #really #want #you

By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage. ↗


— Ian Mcewan


#asking #concentrating #disadvantage #faith #future

I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress. ↗


— Ian Mcewan


#help #i #live #place #rush

Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one. ↗


— Ian Mckellen


#actor #also #always #asked #become

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 done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me. ↗


— Ian Mcewan


#conscience #correct #done #error #especially

Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves. ↗


— Ian Mcewan


#arguing #art #arts #conversely #discoveries

The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish. ↗


— Ian Mcewan


#flourish #human #into #locked #moment

What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike? ↗


— Ian Mcewan


#reader #strike #told #wants

If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy. ↗


— Ian Mckellen


#be happy #each #everyone #get #happy

Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying. ↗


— Ian Mckellen


#coming #done #even #ever #hadn






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