Ian McDiarmid Quotes
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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I think the important thing we have to remember about football in this country is that it is very vibrant, and it's very good to watch, not only in the flesh but also on TV, because our stadiums are full.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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I have freckles; I don't like covering up too much. I like things dewy and natural, and I think that having moisture in your skin is really beautiful and youthful - sometimes that's more important than coverage.
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Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.
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A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.
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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
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When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.
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The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.
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I think there's a culture in Rajasthan Royals that has been there before I got here, so I've come into it. I've enjoyed being part of it and embraced it. They are quite clear about the fact that bottom lines are important, and there is a certain limit on what you can spend.
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Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.
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You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.
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Whatever it is that you do, if you have that passion and desire for it, that's the most important thing.
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Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.
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If I read a script and find it engaging and I start making choices in my mind on how to approach the work, than that's a good indication that it is something worth pursuing.
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In all my years of being with Pittsburgh, I never encountered a player taking a contract dispute into the season and letting that dispute affect the way he played.
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Consistency is very important when you're making films.
