Ian McDiarmid Quotes
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	Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.   
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	I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.   
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	I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.   
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	Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.   
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	There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.   
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	You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.   
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	Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.   
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	Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.   
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	I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.   
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	Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.   
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	The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.   
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	Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.   
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	A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.   
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	I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.   
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	Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.   
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	Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.   
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	Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.   
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	I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.   
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	Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.   
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	A lot of people assume I have a great hat collection, but kids steal my hats at every show. I've had all these hats that I've loved, but now they're in some little kids' possession. It's difficult to replenish. I don't think the kids realize this.   
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	Here we were supposedly changing the world for the better in the Sixties, but as we get 40 years further down the line, we realise that some of those changes such as the drugs probably weren't all that great or sensible. It was all about social experiments.   
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	I've never seen most of the fashion reality shows. The only one I've seen is 'Project Runway,' which is great, but I don't watch television.   
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	Great stories move through fear.   
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	That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					