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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White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.
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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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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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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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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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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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I'm not for the publicity stunts. Leave my son out of the publicity stunts.
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This is a business of love and labor.
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Too many startups get in the habit of continually raising more and more money, which has the deleterious effect of both pushing out profitability and limiting your exit options. The less rounds of capital you need to raise, the more of your company you get to own.
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If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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The bad boys get all the best lines.
