Ian McLeod Quotes
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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I had many, many mentors that I worked with. Music teachers, choir directors, directors in summer stock or in regional theater. You know, people I was able to work with repeatedly and learn from who were really sort of appropriate people for me to work with at a given time in my development as an actor.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.
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I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.'
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I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.
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Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.
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I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.
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I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.
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Fear goes where it is invited.
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Damned meddlers. It’s hard to know when their curiosity is official and when it’s just curiosity.
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Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them.
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Flattery won’t hurt you if you don’t swallow it.
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Wine is good, but water is preferable at table.
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That's my house and that's my car. That's my dog in my backyard. There's the window to the room. Where she lays her pretty headI planted that tree out by the fence. Not long after we moved in. That's my kids and that's my wife. Who's that man, runnin' my life?
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As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.
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Algebra is a general Method of Computation by certain signs and symbols which have been contrived for the Purpose, and found convenient.
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I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.
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Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.
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In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who has spoken to us, trying to make the next step in our reasoning. But somehow we cannot start.
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I have got a reputation to protect.
