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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Clarice: proposing to Toni I'll be your lawyer if you'll be my accountant.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
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I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.
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The bad boys get all the best lines.
