Ian Anderson Quotes
It's nice to be recognized, but it's not great to have it too conspicuously recognized, if you see what I mean. Gold records on the wall, or titles after your name, it's just not something... I don't feel that great about it.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.
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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
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One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.
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I can't make pronouncements about the entirety of Iranian cinema, because there's such a great number of filmmakers and because of the diversity of points of view and filmmaking attitudes.
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We have to get it done, that's no excuse.
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It's nice to be recognized, but it's not great to have it too conspicuously recognized, if you see what I mean. Gold records on the wall, or titles after your name, it's just not something... I don't feel that great about it.
