Ian McShane Quotes
You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
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If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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I love to push myself.
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I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.
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A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
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First and foremost, I look for a great script. Then, the team that I am working with. Only then, we will be able to come up with a good film.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
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In a way, Jersey really supports rock, maybe more than New York City and Long Island. I know plenty of bands that tour and do much better at Starland or other clubs in New Jersey than others in the tri-state area.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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Theatre gives you wings as an actor.
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I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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With publicity comes humiliation.
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A lot of them are afraid to sit down and break their position. You should be able to make it so natural that you can just get out, and sit down and walk away from it, and there's nothing wrong with that.
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I've always dreamed of doing a music video.
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That's silly talk... Talk to my wife. She'll tell me I need to learn to just put my socks on the hamper.
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Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.
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I would have loved to have been a footballer like my great uncle Matt Busby, but I knew quite early on that I wasn't going to make the grade. Luckily I was told by the age of 13 that I wasn't good enough. That's not a bad thing. You see this 'X Factor' generation of kids now who don't accept that they're not good enough.
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You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
