Ian McLeod Quotes
In comedy, it's very, very important to be able to open up so that people feel they're included.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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I love bayou life.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.
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Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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Take complete control over the messages you allow into your conscious mind.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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My father is Nigerian; my mother is from Texas and African-American. My father was the first in his family to go to university. He flew from Nigeria to Los Angeles in the '70s to go to UCLA, where he met my mother. They broke up before I was born, and he returned to Nigeria.
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I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet - a mission by which we are building up a confidence level to become a two-planet species.
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In comedy, it's very, very important to be able to open up so that people feel they're included.
