Ian McLeod Quotes
Having a situation where you have got in conflict with your suppliers all the time is not a great place to be.
Quotes to Explore
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
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If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!
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Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
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You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
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There are times as an actor when you don't work for two months, sometimes three or sometimes six, and the only thing that's going to keep you sane is if you give back and live your life. I've definitely gone through that. It's like, 'Okay, I'm out of work for two months.' That's two months I can paint.
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Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic.
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I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each woman has to face, came also all the rest.
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Growing up, I wanted to be a pilot!
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More and more what we're licensing, we're licensing on a global basis - even though the studios aren't orchestrated to sell that way yet, my bet is that they will.
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Having a situation where you have got in conflict with your suppliers all the time is not a great place to be.
