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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Truth crushed to earth will rise again.
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Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.
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Over time, the repetition, Donald Trump's lies about election rigging, have become a form of background noise, more of the same. And this is a propaganda technique, whether Trump knows it or not.
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I have had only two men in four years while he appears every week on the newspapers with another woman.
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I don't go for the so-called "intimate" stuff. Column items that report: "Minerva Ferncroft sleeps in pink dusting powder between puce-colored sheets in a heart-shaped bed." It leaves me cold.
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Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis
