Ian Beattie Quotes
When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible summers, I found myself being the only boy in Ireland who didn't dream of running away with the circus. I was in it!
Quotes to Explore
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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It is more important to know how to mix and match the clothes than to spend money.
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The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
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I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning all the ideas you ever had before, and everything is just... lame.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and for 99.99999 percent of the world, it's useless. It's meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it.
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Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.
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I don't think I always look in people's faces, like, as - I think especially when I'm doing my more intimate songs that are quite personal, I always feel it's a bit accusing if I stare in someone's face when I singing quite a personal lyric.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
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The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
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I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad, because that means I have the entire day to get in my way.
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My job in 'Motive' is to be the rebellious teenager - what boy wouldn't want to be that?
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The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father.
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Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
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I don't kill flies but I like to mess with their minds. I hold them above globes. They freak out and yell, 'Whoa, I'm way too high!'
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When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible summers, I found myself being the only boy in Ireland who didn't dream of running away with the circus. I was in it!
