Ian McShane Quotes
Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
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'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
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Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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We actors have it pretty easy and pretty hard. Easy 'cause we have a meal provided to us every 6 hours every day and craft services. The hard part is staying fit under those circumstances.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
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We believe that we can deliver better shareholder value by remaining an independent retailer.
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Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
