Ian Stannard Quotes
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I can honestly say that my abortion was one of the least difficult decisions of my life. I'm not being flippant when I say it took me longer to decide what worktops to have in the kitchen than whether I was prepared to spend the rest of my life being responsible for a further human being.
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I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, award shows. I just don't want to say something stupid. But as soon as I step out on that stage, or as soon as I show up to a date, it all goes away, and I just have a great time with whoever I'm with.
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When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.
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Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.
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Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.
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He punched me. If that's his best punch, he'll be in trouble some day.
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People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them.
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Books are my weakness.
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I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'
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You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.
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Chorus leader: Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, / Protracted with sorrow from day to day, / Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, / Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay! (heavily rewritten tr. Frere 1839, p. 38)
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A gun gives you the body, not the bird.
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Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.
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If I could wave a magic wand, I'd break up the banking system.
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Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere.
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The thorough bred against a clamor, or rather the Porsche vs. the pickup truck.
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I don't teach my students, I provide the circumstances in which they can learn.
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It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have always felt strongly that this was the photographer's true vocation.
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Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.
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It's all about progression, not getting stuck and about having aspirations, which can lead you to do more and not just be satisfied. I was always that way about my dancing, and that's how I am about whatever it is I tend to pursue.
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Both have the potential to provide dollar with negative surprises.
