Ian McShane Quotes
When you're doing a medieval show like 'Pillars,' it starts off a bit like a school play. You're all in funny costumes; you've had your coffee, and you say, 'Good morning'. Then you go on set and, if you've got good actors and directors, it takes on a life of its own.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
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Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.
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As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around.
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Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.
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Our hearts are being stretched to span the violence and the suffering in our lives and world, and at the same time we are also witness to so much magnificence and brilliance. We are a species that has produced nuclear weapons, and also one that has developed profound insight into the nature of life itself.
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It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles.
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I think I brush the surface of being involved politically with the issues and the personalities in the news.
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When you're doing a medieval show like 'Pillars,' it starts off a bit like a school play. You're all in funny costumes; you've had your coffee, and you say, 'Good morning'. Then you go on set and, if you've got good actors and directors, it takes on a life of its own.
