Ian Anthony Dale Quotes
I am quite handy; not to sound bragadocious, but I've been working with wood and building things my entire life. I used to be a skateboarder and built ramps with my father. Then, the first two years I lived in Los Angeles, I worked as a carpenter building sets.
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When I lived in Greece and off the coast of Italy, I enjoyed a branzino dish so much that I created my own version.
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You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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The fight against terror cannot stop as long as terrorism itself is not stopped, but the path of war must change: it must lead directly to terrorists and not be waged on the backs of three million Palestinians.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
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The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.
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I try very hard to be bad, but people never take me seriously.
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I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.
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I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.
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A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
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When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.
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But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver's glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue.
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Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting. But if you actually think about it, the things that matter in life are useless. Love is useless. Wine is useless. Art is the love and wine of life. It is the extra, without which life is not worth living.
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I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.
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I'd much rather be liked because people realize that I'm standing up for myself.
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I am quite handy; not to sound bragadocious, but I've been working with wood and building things my entire life. I used to be a skateboarder and built ramps with my father. Then, the first two years I lived in Los Angeles, I worked as a carpenter building sets.
