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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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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It's hard to accept yourself when you live in a world where nobody is like you, or you feel like nobody is like you because there's no representation.
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Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem from that.
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For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very uneasy about the fact that all I did was write in a situation as desperate as apartheid South Africa. Whether I was correct or not is a different issue.
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I'm not the kind of person who would throw himself into some exciting or dangerous situation just to get material. So I tend to go about my normal, boring life and just try to look at things a little more closely.
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Two people who think they're in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other.
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
