Ian McDiarmid Quotes

When George asked me to be the prequels, it was the same kind of meeting - it was very short and to the point. It was nice to see him after a long time, and we met in a hotel room.

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• Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.

  

  Ian Millar
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• Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
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• A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Work
  • Power
  • Soul

• Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Teach
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  • Nobody

• You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
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  • Movies

• I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Know
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• Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Law
  • Constitution
  • Slave

• Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Long
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  • Performance

• I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Fiction
  • Fan
  • Historical

• For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them. You can gauge how good a joke might be by how many times it gets retweeted, but it takes discipline to go back through the tweets and then develop jokes from them.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Time
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• I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.

  

  Carice van Houten
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  • Child
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• I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Long
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• I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Father
  • Hate
  • Support

• My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.

  

  Sam Shepard
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• I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Myself
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• I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
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• Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.

  

  Man Ray
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• It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

  

  Tabare Vazquez
  • Society
  • Growth
  • Wealth

• The best philanthropy is anonymous charity. When you’re doing it for the right reasons, and not to tell everyone how nice you are. That’s self-aggrandizement. That’s also OK: if you want credit, that’s OK. But the higher giving is anonymous giving.

  

  Gene Klein Kiss
  • Giving
  • Nice
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• Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

  

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

• Our Samsung Medical Center has caused too big a pain and worry for the people by failing to prevent the infection and spread of MERS. I bow my head in apology.

  

  Jay Y. Lee
  • People
  • Pain
  • Worry

• You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

  

  David Ogden Stiers
  • Work
  • Different
  • Live

• I think that winning creates chemistry, as opposed to other way around. I've been on a lot of friendly teams that couldn't win, trust me.

  

  Joe Torre
  • Trust
  • Winning

• When George asked me to be the prequels, it was the same kind of meeting - it was very short and to the point. It was nice to see him after a long time, and we met in a hotel room.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
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