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 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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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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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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Most people keep their brains between their legs
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Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.
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Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling.
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You're never going to please everyone, and if you do, there's something wrong.
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High-quality public education - combined with other appropriate support, as needed - is the best way to achieve the Oregon Business Plan's goal of reducing the number of people living in poverty.
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I might be trying to change the world, but I also better be funny while I'm doing it. I've never lost sight of that.
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Unfortunately, pioneers will always pave the way with sacrifices.
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Ancient portraits are symbolic images without any immediate relation to the individuals represented; they are not portraits as we understand them. It is remarkable that philologists who are capable of carrying accuracy to the extremes in the case of words are as credulous as babies when it comes to "images," and yet an image is so full of information that ten thousands words would not add up to it.
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I have got a reputation to protect.
