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 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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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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There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.
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Fear is one of the worst, and most limiting, emotions in life.
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It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.
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It's very shocking for me to see pictures from my win here in 2008. I aged.
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If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
