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In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be. Huston Smith

Nature Ought Rather Emphasis Than

I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again. Ian Anderson

Buy Music People Loan Think Once Drawer Plug Rather Tend Individual Never Disappear Attention Attention Spans Tracks Friend iTunes Than Listen Short Again Spans Them Then Really Whole Download Watch Album

People tend to settle for the fiver rather than going for the pot of gold. Ian Brown

People Settle Pot Rather Tend Than Going Gold

I'm belligerent rather than ambitious. Ian Hart

Rather Ambitious Than Belligerent

Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after. Ian Hislop

You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan. Ian Mcewan

I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf. Ian Mckellen

Characters Rather Like Imposing Famous Fortunate Two

There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company. But you also end up in the company of people you don't admire, including some rather dodgy politicians. Ian Mckellen

Life You People My Life Politicians Tremendous Spent Admire Laurence Laurence Olivier Admiring Some Rather Like Also Been End Up Very Flattering Them Much Who Many Company Including Actor

What's nice for me, having identified myself for years as being rather shy, is now, wherever I am, in public, there tends to be a friendly face who's pleased to see me, and I like that. Ian Mckellen

Myself Me Face Nice Pleased See Rather Having Tends Like Identified Am Years Friendly Being Wherever Public Now Shy

I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now. Idina Menzel

Theatre Better Wish Think Would Rather More Had Read Am Been Than Trying Artist Literature Now Play

Women are often scrutinized when they have pets that men wouldn't have. We are immediately faulted for having the wrong kind of pet rather than anyone first think, 'Wow, she rescued an animal that would have been otherwise killed and gave them a great home - how sweet!' Iliza Shlesinger

Home Great Animal Women Pet Men First Sweet Think Gave Otherwise Immediately Kind Would Wow Rather Having Wrong Wrong Kind She How Been Women Are Than Often Anyone Them Scrutinized Rescued Pets

I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress. Iman

I'd rather somebody expect a lot out of me than nothing at all. Iman Shumpert

Me Somebody Nothing Out Rather Lot Expect Than

I've been trying to arrive at a person who is self-defined and able to make my own mistakes rather than having other people make them for me. India Arie

Me People Mistakes Own Other Able My Own Rather Having Make Arrive Been Than Person Trying Them Who

Indeed, the Royal Family still retain the German custom - introduced by Prince Albert - of opening their presents on Christmas Eve rather than Christmas morning. Ingrid Seward

Christmas Family Morning Indeed Introduced Rather Retain Opening Prince Still German Than Custom Eve Albert Royal Royal Family Presents Christmas Eve

Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people. Ira Glass

People World Bad People School Cynical Suited Others Everything Bad Find About Rather Tend Like Optimistic Reporters Reporting Where Whereas Them Whole Even Amused

I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find. Iris Apfel

Love Time Sometimes Own Dig Market Spend Spent Find Dressed About Someplace My Own Rather More Like Got Go Than Same Getting Closet Getting Dressed Just Anything Process Flea Search Even Event Actual

Sometimes when you're playing a very intense character, a disturbed character, you find other layers. That's much more interesting to me, rather than just playing 'intense.' I find it too boring. Irrfan Khan

Character Me You Sometimes Too Other Find Boring Disturbed Rather More Layers Very Than Intense Just Interesting Much Playing

I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined. Irvin D. Yalom

Great Generation Writing Gone Medicine Say Ways Possibly Able Brought Rather Could Writer Never Had Idea Towards Combine Also Attraction Healer Another Always Been Up Than Maybe Just Being Wanted Which Might Fortunately Two Imagined

For 'Filth,' we had about 12 producers on the thing. The opening credits go on for months. Most of them are actually financers rather than producers. And the only way that we could raise the budget without interference from a studio was to have a lot of different financers on board. Irvine Welsh

Filth Way Months About Rather Only Could Had Studio Budget Opening Most Without Go Lot Than Different Board Them Producers Interference Actually Thing Credits Raise

My first experiences of Colorado travel have been rather severe. At Greeley, I got a small upstairs room at first, but gave it up to a married couple with a child, and then had one downstairs no bigger than a cabin, with only a canvas partition. It was very hot, and every place was thick with black flies. Isabella Bird

Travel Black First Every Gave Severe Married Married Couple Rather Only Small Colorado Cabin Had Hot Couple Partition Got Been Up Very Than Child Experiences Bigger Upstairs Place Canvas Room Then Flies Thick Downstairs

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