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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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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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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I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.
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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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I regard Jesus, like the Buddha, as a figure with the power to shape our lives.
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Imagine that: If you could change one of the genes in an experiment, an aging gene, maybe you could slow down aging and extend lifespan.
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The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.
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Long before I fell in love with writing, I fell in love with reading. Sometimes, honestly, I feel like I'm cheating on my first love when I settle into my office chair to start work on the latest manuscript.
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You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.
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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.
