Ian McShane Quotes
'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
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Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.
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I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
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And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
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I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
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When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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I read whatever is put in front of me. I gobble up books.
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I want to be on a show that's not sensitive to racial jokes; I want to be on one where they call me everything and I call them right back. There's blatant racism going both ways. That's what we need.
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Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
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I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called.
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I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I was a little girl, I was told, 'When we are gone' - when you're a kid, you never think they'll ever be gone - 'you have to keep the music alive, the Carter Family songs, and add your own songs.'
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I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.
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Well, I hate it when authors come into a school and they say to kids, 'Write from your heart, only write what you know, and write from your heart.' I hate that because it's useless. I've written over 300 books - not one was written from my heart. Not one. They were all written for an audience, they were all written to entertain a certain audience.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
