Ian Hamilton Finlay Quotes
I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
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I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country.
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But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious disease it is, the sooner people will start to correct that situation.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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Over the years, I've heard a lot of people who don't feel that they have it in them to do anything creative. They shrug and claim that they 'have no talent.' They say things like, 'Don't quit your day job' or 'Leave it to the professionals.' In the steampunk subculture, I don't hear those things.
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?
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I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
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I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
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I create with my heart, so life and work inevitably intersect all too often.
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Do not feel badly if your kindness is rewarded with ingratitude; it is better to fall from your dream clouds than from a third-story window.
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I think afterall, a promotion video is a piece of work in it's own right.
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My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
