Ian Somerhalder Quotes
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.
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Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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In closing, let me just thank God, on the floor of the House, for not turning away from us even though we seem to be turning away from Him.
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'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.
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The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.
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I don't look at other people's work because I don't want to be distracted by their ideas.
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I swear people don't want sex so much as they want somebody who'll listen to 'em … the first thing you learn after fellatio is how to listen.
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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it. I want to draw a certain response like this.. ..that quality of response from people when they leave themselves behind, often experienced in nature, an experience of simple joy.. .My paintings are about merging, about formlessness.. .A world without objects, without interruption.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
