Ian McShane Quotes
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The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
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I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
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I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.
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I was always taught that Latin, Caribbean people were cousins to me, as well as blues was a cousin to me, as well as Africans were direct relatives to me. It was all a part of my language.
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No man stops caring as long as he breathes. As long as he has a mind and memory, he will care. This is what separates us from the animals. We have feelings.
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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.
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I don't believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance.
