Michael Ironside Quotes
I like to play bad guys, since good guys are always beaten up several times during the movie. Bad guys are beaten only once, in the end.
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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My 93-year-old grandma is a beautiful example of healthy living. She laughs a lot and always says, 'Just be yourself!' She also eats dessert every single day.
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The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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Just know what's inside your food.
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On the one hand, Porto Monenegro is shape-shifting - it replaced a naval shipyard with a new marina - but it's also mind-shifting, opening up an array of other small business opportunities. And this shape-shifting and mind-shifting, it is exactly what we're trying to do in Montenegro.
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Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.
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You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.
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All the historical pretenders to global power originated in Eurasia.
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The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
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The successful men I admired all built their bodies.
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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.
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One of the most powerful networking practices is to provide immediate value to a new connection. This means the moment you identify a way to help someone, take action.
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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
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When E! ended the show, it wasn't because it was low-rated. It was because E! did not want to pay union rerun dues.
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I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement.
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People make you feel like a bad guy for asking for seven quid for your album, like you are slapping them in the face, when they'll go and pay two grand for a scarf somebody knitted in a sweat shop and stitched a designer label on.
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I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.
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There's a lot of head-shaking and forehead-slapping when you start to realize just how deep-seated misogyny can be, how systemic and entrenched certain modes of thinking are that are still very much alive.
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Foreign audiences are used to seeing Mexico in other sorts of movies. 'Casi divas' is a step toward a more commercially successful cinema, without the violence, blood and exaggerations. The movie reflects a more human Mexico, while remaining a chick flick, although it is not a romantic comedy.
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As a child, recognizing my difference from other kids, I went to the local public library to try to better understand my reality. Back then, many library card catalogues didn't even list 'homosexuality' as a topic.
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I like to play bad guys, since good guys are always beaten up several times during the movie. Bad guys are beaten only once, in the end.
