Ian Kershaw Quotes
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.
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My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.
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Eventually I got the call for 'Iron Man,' and I read sides that had nothing to do with what I did in the movie, and I performed it once while no one was in the room - it was videotaped, and I'm sure Shane Black was watching it from his helicopter or something. And then I got a call the next day that I was going down to shoot it.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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Andy Grammer is probably the closest friend I have in the music industry, so touring with him was just incredible. He's such a soulful, kind guy, and he gives great advice. And he also scares me a lot. He does a lot of pranks.
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All of us, the government, parliament, local authorities and the society must demonstrate determination and readiness to use knowledge and capabilities... toward full European integration.
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My memories are inside me – they're not things or a place – I can take them anywhere.
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I'm crazy, and I don't pretend to be anything else.
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I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.
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Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.
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I was doing well in TV as a freelance cameraman, but it wasn't the direction I wanted to go in. I directed videos and tried to put something cinematic in every one. Dialogue, action sequences, helicopter, Steadicam.
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I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the character, and I want to protect both of those things.
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I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.
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The idea of stuff just hanging in my closet and not being used - there's a little bit of the African in me that gets bothered by that somewhat.
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I would have loved to have a role in the HBO series 'Deadwood.' It was Shakespeare in the Old West.
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When the sun died, I went up to heaven and saw God and all the people who had died a long time ago. God told me to come back and tell my people they must be good and love one another, and not fight, or steal, or lie. He gave me this dance to give to my people.
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November 11, 1802, I arrived at Judge Patterson's at Lisle. This respectable family treated me with every mark of distinction and friendship, and likewise all the people did the same. I really want for words to express my gratitude.
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I would dearly love to take up the brush again, but I realize that I am an C man and that I cannot set the world afire.
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Hitler was never a socialist.
