"I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building."
-Ian Mcewan
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"I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force."
-Ian Mcewan
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"London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble we had severe energy problems we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities politics were fantastically polarized between left and right."
-Ian Mcewan
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"Politics is the enemy of the imagination."
-Ian Mcewan
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"True intelligence requires fabulous imagination."
-Ian Mcewan
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"I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence."
-Ian Mcewan
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"I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights."
-Megawati Sukarnoputri
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"You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence."
-William Boetcker
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"I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage."
-Dame Edith Evans
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"There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge."
-Patrick Campbell
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"Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow."
-Alexandre Vinet
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"There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage."
-Bill Hunter
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