Ian McShane Quotes
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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Since I was 19, I've always gone where there was a reason to be. Maybe I'll be lucky and there'll be a reason to go somewhere tropical for a while.
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Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
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A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.
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The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't otherwise have. So I'm very creatively ambitious, and I just hope people notice it; that's all I want.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
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I am totally a fringe candidate, and so is Bill Weld: you know, two Republican governors serving in heavily blue states, outspoken, small government guys, outspoken on the social liberal side. We're fringe, totally. We're fringe.
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
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When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
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I don't believe in aliens. I don't think aliens or ghosts like black people. We never get abducted; our houses never get haunted. It always happens in rural areas, where no ethnic people live. The day I see somebody from South Central Los Angeles say, 'Man, I got abducted yesterday,' then I'll believe it.
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I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.
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As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.
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The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. And I defy you to name any other branch of science that still depends on hundreds-of-year-old technology. The other primary way is we go down with submersibles and remote- operated vehicles. I've made hundreds of dives in submersibles.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
