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Only five books tonight, Mommy," she says.
No, Olivia, just one."
How about four?"
Two."
Three."
Oh, all right, three. But that's it!


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IAN MCKELLEN It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and re...
IAN MCKELLEN I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of puttin...
IAN MCKELLEN There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender ov...
IAN MCKELLEN You mustn't upstage the bride.
IAN MCKELLEN What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in oth...
IAN MCKELLEN So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for m...
IAN MCKELLEN I like sleeping a lot.
IAN MCKELLEN Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, some...
IAN MCKELLEN My friends are my family.
IAN MCKELLEN I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat ...
IAN MCKELLEN Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to li...
IAN MCKELLEN I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction....
IAN MCKELLEN I usually eat in my friend Tom Corcoran's place - the Siam Thai in Monkstown. I go there for a v...
IAN MCKEEVER I have never had the money to make too many large purchases.
IAN MCKEEVER I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doin...
IAN MCKEEVER I don't hold grudges.
IAN MCEWAN The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel r...
IAN MCEWAN The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literatu...
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&...
IAN MCEWAN I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them....
IAN MCEWAN Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and the...
IAN MCEWAN It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're...
IAN MCEWAN Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
IAN MCEWAN Not being boring is quite a challenge.
IAN MCEWAN One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
IAN MCEWAN I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent...
IAN MCEWAN I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
IAN MCEWAN What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and...
IAN MCEWAN I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
IAN MCEWAN You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
IAN MCEWAN I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don&#...
IAN MCEWAN One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any fra...
IAN MCEWAN True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
IAN MCEWAN But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the...
IAN MCDIARMID For me it's even more interesting, because my character comes out of the shadow. It's a chan...
IAN MCDIARMID I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite g...
IAN MCDIARMID I'm the blackest villain of all time.
IAN MCDIARMID The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen pl...
IAN MCDIARMID