Ian McShane Quotes
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When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.
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There is always pressure in football.
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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I'm a punk rocker. I don't do Christian.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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I take none of that to heart. I don't feel like there's anything that I need to do for anybody else. I want to win bad enough for myself anyway, that nothing anybody can say can make me want to win any more.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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The bad boys get all the best lines.
