Ian McDiarmid Quotes
And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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Women dress very much according to their moods, so when you see their shoes, it really shows you the character and what they want to show to the world, and what they are feeling at that time.
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I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.
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I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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I try to write stories that will attract younger readers and make them feel part of a wider readership. I do not feel able to write books that are about, or even for, teenagers; and I am inclined to be suspicious of books which 'target' them.
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Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try.
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Grub Street Writers is the reason I've stayed in Boston. I started teaching for Grub back in 1997, when founder Eve Bridburg, a Boston University M.A. alumna, as I am, kindly gave me my first job out of grad school.
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You got to deal with reviews the same way you deal with your views, which I a long time ago stopped reading because the point is if you believe the good ones you have to believe the bad ones. It's kind of all or nothing.
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I don't think anyone's a failure as long as they're still innocent. Just a little. They may lose everything good in them but as long as they believe just a little in something very small, they're still innocent. To fail is to lose every bit of innocence.
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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
