Michael Ironside Quotes
If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer.
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I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that.
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The fact I even get an opportunity to make one album is crazy. But if all goes to plan, I'll get to make five albums. That'd be nice.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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Most of the time when people say something sounds like Steely Dan, and I listen to it, it doesn't. And I'm not even sure what they're talking about.
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I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.
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I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.
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The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.
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Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.
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I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.
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You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.
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I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
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Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.
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In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.
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I just don't harbor resentment toward anything or anywhere or anyone - I'm too busy.
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London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.
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So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask, 'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'
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Always take earplugs and an eye mask. It doesn't matter where you are. Even if you're in the best hotel, if there's road works outside, then you're screwed. So I take earplugs and an eye mask with me wherever I go.
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If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer.
