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The Australian captain, the players and selectors have all suffered from thrashing too many soft opponents.


Ian Chappell

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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