Ian McLeod Quotes
I think it's very important for Arts Ministers to purchase art, to attend art, to validate art.
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Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.
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I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
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I'll never forget the first time... I got a Blackberry smartphone, and I'm playing with it and I'm going, 'This is really important because my email, my contacts, my calendar. Everything is here and it's synced up with that computer. It's synced up with my assistant's computer.'
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The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.
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The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!
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I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.
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Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.
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My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.
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For me, it was very important to be part of a boxing film that actually explores the psychological aspects of the sport, more than just the physical aspects. I haven't seen boxing movies very often that really go so deep into the minds of the boxers. It really puts out how much it is about strategy and tactics and technique.
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I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.
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My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.
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You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
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Every good painter paints what he is.
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The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.
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Thou art Justice - ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England - thou Shield'st alike the high and low.
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Just being raised in a home where my mother, from as early as I can remember, always taught me to be thinking about other people first, basically that our service was going to be the measure of our success.
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Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions... and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive
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I think it's very important for Arts Ministers to purchase art, to attend art, to validate art.
