Ian Hickson Quotes
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I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.
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The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
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In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool.
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I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or... it's a waste of time.
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I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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The whole idea that the Constitution of the United States would be used to advance a political agenda is absurd.
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I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.
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At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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The eyes of the world are fixed on the U.S. to see if we have the political courage and moral sense to solve our debt crisis.
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Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip.
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I ended up injuring her with a knife I had on me. I can't really remember what happened.
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She's not forgiven me, but we have a wonderful life from our family and that's the nature and quality of that woman that she can say that.
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Wish it, believe it, and it will be so.
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I found it hard to express myself in the world. I was very shy. I'm still very shy. But also, when I was a child, I could get very... I had this violence... I still get angry. But I don't break things; I'm not hysterical.
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Tis a human trait to hate one you have wronged
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Things that are impossible just take longer.
