Ian McLeod Quotes
I become quite inhibited particularly when I do comedy, I won't - there's a whole thing of allowing an audience in and if you - if you cover yourself with a mask of, kind of, severity, which I'm quite good at doing, that's masking fear of course, then people feel shut out.
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.
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Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
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I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.
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I think glamour all the time. I wake up in the morning and I'm already thinking glamour.
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I was Chairman Mao's dog. What he said to bite, I bit.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.
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I become quite inhibited particularly when I do comedy, I won't - there's a whole thing of allowing an audience in and if you - if you cover yourself with a mask of, kind of, severity, which I'm quite good at doing, that's masking fear of course, then people feel shut out.
