Ian_Jack Quotes
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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
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Me a playboy?! You must be joking. But playing something like Robert Redford's role in Indecent Proposal would be a pleasant surprise.
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I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.
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I lose my cell phone so much that I switch it every month or so, but Sony Ericsson is usually what I use.
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If you are a woman with your own money, you have confidence. You have the pick of the litter.
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I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I'm so not that woman. I'm passionate. I love my girls, being with my girlfriends, getting involved with issues that affect other women and children who are suffering.
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Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.
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If there's ever been a dark moment in my life... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.
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Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love.
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The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.
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Without such inspiration, we would rapidly deteriorate and finally perish.
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I wanted my anger to be valid, and the only way to do that is to be fairly attractive.
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Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.
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When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.
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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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Rotten wood cannot be carved.
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Now, grosses are listed in the newspapers and on television like it's a sporting event. It's ridiculous, because when you're watching a movie, unless you're an investor in the movie or a stockholder in the studio, what do you care how much it's grossing or how much it cost or any of that stuff?
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Years ago, when James Bulger was murdered, every newspaper front page was talking about evil. At that point, having suppressed it for years, I remembered when I was four or five, I tried to kill my own brother.
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Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.
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Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis
