life quotes/love quotes/motivational quotes
At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.
I. King Jordan
I'm committed to sign in everything I communicate, but I also speak. I still believe that I reach more people when I do that. I bridge two different cultures and two different worlds, and I think that bridge still needs work.
I. King Jordan
Differences among deaf people are okay, but we need to recognize those differences and work together.
I. King Jordan
I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.
I. King Jordan
After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
I. King Jordan
There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.
I. King Jordan
I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.
I. King Jordan
I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator
I. King Jordan
All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
I. F. Stone
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
I. F. Stone
Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
I. F. Stone
Rich people march on Washington every day.
I. F. Stone
The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.
I. F. Stone
If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
I. F. Stone
The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.
I. F. Stone
The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
I. M. Pei
To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.
I. M. Pei
We had a lot of difficulty in getting the French to accept the pyramid. They thought we were trying to import a piece of Egypt until I pointed out that their obelisk was also from Egypt and the Place des Pyramides is around the corner. Then they accepted it. The pyramid at the Louvre, though, is just the tip.
I. M. Pei
A lasting architecture has to have roots.I. M. PeiArchitecture Roots Lasting
Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
I. M. Pei
A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.
I. M. Pei
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
I. M. Pei
The Pyramids are perfect, but you can't put the Pyramids in the middle of Manhattan. In the desert, the combination of light and form makes it perfect.
I. M. Pei
I have a great love for nature. That must have started somewhere down back home, I think, because my family own one of the better known gardens in Soochow, so I played there, and I lived there, and so I must have absorbed something there. So I continue to have a great interest in nature.
I. M. Pei
I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even speak English. I could read a little, perhaps write a little, but that was all. It was a 17-day journey, and I learnt to speak English from the stewards.
I. M. Pei
I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
I. M. Pei
One thing I learn - I've been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.
I. M. Pei
dream for a young man from Canton.
I. M. Pei
Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process.
I. M. Pei
14 In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert.
I. M. Pei
It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.
I. M. Pei
I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
I. M. Pei
The Louvre for me is a wonderful experience. Because it continues; it didn't get cut off. It was actually a continuous involvement all the way, and a lot of people have come and gone, come and gone; but I'm still here.
I. M. Pei
I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.
I. M. Pei
I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.
I. M. Pei
Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.
I. M. Pei
The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
I. M. Pei
As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.
Iain Banks
Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.
Iain Banks
You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.
Iain Banks
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
Iain Banks
Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.
Iain Banks
In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
Iain Banks
I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.
Iain Banks
I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
Iain Banks
I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's largely because I spend my working life staring at a screen and hitting a keyboard, I am trying to cut down on that, not increase it.
Iain Banks
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
Iain Banks
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
Iain Banks
I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them.
Iain Banks
Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.
Iain Banks
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
Iain Banks
I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.
Iain Banks
I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
Iain Banks
There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
Iain Banks
'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.Iain BanksDead Guilty Air
I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
Iain Banks
Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.Iain BanksScience Science Fiction Looking
I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
Iain Banks
I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
Iain Banks
You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
Iain Banks
I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!
Iain Banks
By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
Iain Banks
I've always loved Scotland, and I'm not a huge fan of big cities, to be honest. I like them to dip into for a bit, but I'm not sure I would want to live in one again.
Iain Banks
I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.
Iain Banks
I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
Iain Banks
Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
Iain Banks
In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.
Iain Banks
I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.
Iain Banks
I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
Iain Banks
Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.
Iain Banks
When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. We used to make these silly, stupid short films, which, looking back now, were probably horrible.
Iain De Caestecker
Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
Iain De Caestecker
I remember my first actor that I really, really fell in love with was Tom Hanks. I suppose when I was growing up and getting more serious about acting, at that point, he was the biggest actor in the world.
Iain De Caestecker
My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used to go to drama classes when I was younger, and she would always take me. But when I got to an age when I decided it was what I wanted to do, when she accepted it, she had actually been the most supportive person ever.
Iain De Caestecker
I do actually have a connection with James Herriot because we went to school in the same area. I went to Hillhead Primary School in the West End of Glasgow and he went to Hillhead Secondary.
Iain De Caestecker
Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
Iain Duncan Smith
Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.
Iain Duncan Smith
When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.
Iain Duncan Smith
There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.Iain Duncan SmithMarriage Tools Institution
4We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.
Iain Duncan Smith
By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.
Iain Duncan Smith
With high underemployment - currently over one million part-time workers in the UK want to work more hours - sanctioning clients who cannot increase their hours seems to be both unworkable and unfair.Iain Duncan SmithWork Seems High
7You know in my own area of Waltham Forest, we've had many murders as a result of the gang violence and often innocent bystanders get caught up in it.
Iain Duncan Smith
In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene.
Iain Duncan Smith
Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.
Iain Duncan Smith
Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'
Iain Duncan Smith
Thankfully, due to the United Kingdom and the commitment of the Westminster government we are able to ensure that money brought in, whether it be from the City of London or from North Sea oil, can be pooled and directed to wherever it is needed most. That is what being in the United Kingdom is all about.
Iain Duncan Smith
Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.
Iain Duncan Smith
It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.
Iain Duncan Smith
14In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.Iain Duncan SmithWork Will Credit
Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?
Iain Duncan Smith
Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.Iain Duncan SmithLook New Will
My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
Iain Duncan Smith
The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.
Iain Duncan Smith
That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.
Iain Duncan Smith
With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.
Iain Duncan Smith
A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
Iain Duncan Smith
Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.
Iain Duncan Smith
If Britain is to have a stable, affordable pension system, people need to work longer, but we will reward their hard work with a decent state pension that will enable them to enjoy quality of life in their retirement.
Iain Duncan Smith
After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
Iain Duncan Smith
The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.
Iain Duncan Smith
With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on an entirely different track - one which sees them move into fulfilling and sustainable work. In doing so, they will pull themselves out of poverty.
Iain Duncan Smith
For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.
Iain Duncan Smith
Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.
Iain Duncan Smith
Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.Iain Duncan SmithUnderstanding Consequences Without
30Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
Iain Duncan Smith
The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.
Iain Duncan Smith
A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.
Iain Duncan Smith
No I'm not a great believer in getting back over things and saying if only, or if, or buts because I don't think we actually get anywhere on that.
Iain Duncan Smith
No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
Iain Duncan Smith
I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.
Iain Duncan Smith
Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.
Iain Duncan Smith
What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.
Iain Duncan Smith
Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit down, the debt paid off, so that the economy can grow again and grow properly.
Iain Duncan Smith
People work hard.
Iain Duncan Smith
The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
Iain Duncan Smith
If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.
Iain Duncan Smith
We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
Iain Duncan Smith
Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.
Iain Duncan Smith
I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.
Iain Duncan Smith
There is nothing people can throw at me to say'Do this, do that.'Iain Duncan SmithMe Nothing People
We do need to have a little bit more protection and sensibility around pensioners. They are remarkable. They gave so much. We need to make sure we do our best by them.
Iain Duncan Smith
All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.
Iain Duncan Smith
Due to the reliance on the old heavy industries in many parts of the country, it makes perfect sense that we need to spend more money per head of population on welfare support in Scotland.
Iain Duncan Smith
I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children.
Iain Duncan Smith
The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.
Iain Duncan Smith
When the news is good, the BBC view is'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad'Let's all dump on the government.'
Iain Duncan Smith
Getting a family into work, supporting strong relationships, getting parents off drugs and out of debt - all this can do more for a child's well-being than any amount of money in out-of-work benefits.
Iain Duncan Smith
We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to our young school-leavers. It is part of our contract with the British people.
Iain Duncan Smith
Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.
Iain Duncan Smith
I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.
Iain Duncan Smith
I hate this argument that says little Britain or something outside, or Britain is part of a wider Europe. We can both be within our trading relationships within Europe but we can also be a fantastic global trader.
Iain Duncan Smith
We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
Iain Duncan Smith
I think that the status that you have in life should be reflected in official documents. If you are married, fine, if you are living with someone, fine, if you are single, fine. We don't want to tell people how to live their lives.
Iain Duncan Smith
What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.
Iain Duncan Smith
My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for.
Iain Duncan Smith
Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
Iain Duncan Smith
Balance is if you try hard, you work hard then the rewards are in balance with what you put in and what is available.
Iain Duncan Smith
You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
Iain Glen
With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.
Iain Glen
A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
Iain Glen
I'm too much of a big kid.
Iain Glen
I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.
Iain Glen
You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.
Iain Glen
I don't crave Hollywood.
Iain Glen
A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
Iain Glen
As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.
Iain Glen
I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
Iain Glen
I've been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel.
Iain Glen
My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.
Iain Glen
I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.
Iain Glen
The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
Iain McGilchrist
The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for a building and the builder's list of supplies. It specified the parts, the building blocks, and, somehow, the design of the whole, the way in which they are to be put together.
Iain McGilchrist
The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
Iain McGilchrist
It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition in favour of rationality, where we are inclined to use it, is just that - an intuition. Reason is founded in intuition and ends in intuition, like a pair of massive bookends.
Iain McGilchrist
Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.
Iain McGilchrist
Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the animal.
Iain McGilchrist
Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.
Iain McGilchrist
Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.
Iain McGilchrist
To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
Iain McGilchrist
We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.
Iain McGilchrist
The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.
Iain McGilchrist
In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the playShylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
Iain McGilchrist
Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in musicWe tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.
Iain McGilchrist
I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body, and between mind and brain.
Iain McGilchrist
The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
Iain McGilchrist
The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.
Iain McGilchrist
To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
Iain Sinclair
The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.
Iain Sinclair
If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
Iain Sinclair
Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition.
Iain Sinclair
If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self.
Iain Sinclair
An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.
Iain Sinclair
I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
Iain Sinclair
The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.
Iain Sinclair
The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
Iain Sinclair
The negotiation of city space has been made more difficult with the idea that redevelopment is an improvement for some vague future - but it's never like that, is it? Once you get there, for economic reasons you have to generate the next project - so you're immediately starting to dig up something else, and so it goes on.
Iain Sinclair
You can't impose a legacy.
Iain Sinclair
I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney.
Iain Sinclair
What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
Iain Sinclair
There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the periods when we are least able to pay for them.
Iain Sinclair
With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?
Iain Sinclair
You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
Iain Sinclair
I probably wouldn't be doing comedy, if it wasn't for the fact that I was doing stand-up and getting a few gigs, while I was also applying for law internships and getting absolutely nothing.
Iain Stirling
But with voice-over on a reality TV show, I think I'm pretty up there, maybe one of the best. It's a confidence boost, which helps my stand-up because I'll try more interesting stuff.
Iain Stirling
I guess the argument is you chose to be in the public eye and, therefore, you're giving your life up for a certain level of scrutiny and you've got to accept that. The trade-off between being on 'Love Island' and not being on 'Love Island' is very skewed into the positive.
Iain Stirling
I get recognised on the phone because it's harder to cover up your voice than your head. You can put a hat on or something, but I can't do accents.
Iain Stirling
Children are brutal and have no malice, which makes everything they say horribly cutting.Iain StirlingChildren They Say Everything
Everything I do sort of goes wrong but I always sort of get away with it.
Iain Stirling
My stuff is observational, what people do with their lives from the angle of a man that can't pull it off. So if I talk about having a family, it would be through the medium of a man who is in no fit state to be given a child to look after.
Iain Stirling
I've always been blown away by how unique Brian Limond's mind is.
Iain Stirling
My father Rodger is your typical 'funny without knowing it' kinda guy. When he says something that creates shock or joy in a room, I love watching his confused face as he tries to work out what it is he did.
Iain Stirling
Well, there are more job prospects after 'Love Island'.
Iain Stirling
In 2005, I remember being told that I could get a job wherever I wanted.
Iain Stirling
Where I come from, everyone talks like me. It's working-class Edinburgh.
Iain Stirling
I definitely enjoyed it and I am glad I did university - four years of not being in the public eye - and I met all my best friends doing it, so I am definitely glad it happened.
Iain Stirling
I just feel like 'Love Island' is like a fantasy TV show. We're showing our, sort of, in my opinion, a comedy ideal of what paradise is like.
Iain Stirling
You will always worry - a wee lad from Edinburgh going up on stage in Glasgow.
Iain Stirling
I can deal with having a terrible night on stage in front a bunch of Glaswegians but not a bunch of Glaswegians and my mum and dad.
Iain Stirling
I have always been a comedian - that has always been my job and it is what I want to do for a long time to come.
Iain Stirling
A lot of ones I've really chased and wanted - as a comic, I've always wanted to do a 'Mock The Week' - it's always discussed, but for whatever reason it doesn't happen.
Iain Stirling
I used to be on a live show with Caroline Flack, and I think I only got on that because I was a comic in Spain and ended up getting on well with her.
Iain Stirling
The one place I always get recognised for my voice - and this is the God's honest truth - is when I'm at the till in Topman paying for my clothes. Every time.
Iain Stirling
Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.
Ian Allison
Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years.
Ian Allison
It's only the giving that makes you what you are.
Ian Anderson
I think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first of all, has got to be put into the context of being an American cultural showcase. It's there to be a museum showcase of all that's great about American music.
Ian Anderson
I've always felt that some of my best lyrics are less than three minutes long, and it's great when you can do that - be succinct and get the message across in a simple, clear idea.
Ian Anderson
I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
Ian Anderson
Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.
Ian Anderson
Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.
Ian Anderson
I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.
Ian Anderson
It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.
Ian Anderson
If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim.
Ian Anderson
Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.
Ian Anderson
When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.
Ian Anderson
I've always been fond of acoustic music.
Ian Anderson
It's nice to be recognized, but it's not great to have it too conspicuously recognized, if you see what I mean. Gold records on the wall, or titles after your name, it's just not something... I don't feel that great about it.
Ian Anderson
I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.
Ian Anderson
I feel the audience has a right to know if some of the money they're spending is going to a certain cause, and reassuring them the money is going to where it's supposed to be going.
Ian Anderson
1Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.
Ian Anderson
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame traditionally has had a management style that is very supportive of American talent, first and foremost, over everything else. And I think that's right and proper.
Ian Anderson
In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.
Ian Anderson
I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.
Ian Anderson
When I was a young boy, I preferred cats to dogs. From the age of seven or eight onwards I just felt more comfortable with cats. And I felt more comfortable with girls, I didn't really like hanging out with guys. When I was about ten or eleven, I was friendlier with the girls in my school than with the guys.
Ian Anderson
Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
Ian Anderson
I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
Ian Anderson
A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.
Ian Anderson
I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
Ian Anderson
I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.
Ian Anderson
I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view them with, if not hostility, at least suspicion, discomfort, embarrassment.
Ian AndersonS
I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed when Eric Clapton came on the scene, and I decided I was never going to be in the same arena as a Clapton or a Peter Green.
Ian Anderson
As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
Ian Anderson
There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
Ian Anderson
Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
Ian Anderson
Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.
Ian Anderson
The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.
Ian Anderson
I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.
Ian Anderson
All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.
Ian Anderson
I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again.
Ian Anderson
I'm all in favor of banks that play their part in community endeavors, private individuals looking for loans, people who want to start up a little business, and that's what banks are for.
Ian Anderson
I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people.
Ian Anderson
We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II.
Ian Anderson
When I was in my teenage years, I went to sign up as a cadet entrant to the police force but was at the very last moment rejected, just as I was about to sign my name on the dotted line. I won't get into why that happened, but it was a moment where it could've been predetermined then that I was off to become a policeman.
Ian Anderson
I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing olderIan Anderson
I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
Ian Anderson
Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
Ian Anderson
There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.
Ian Anderson
I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.
Ian Anderson
As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
Ian Anderson
Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.
Ian Anderson
If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.
Ian Anderson
In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.
Ian Anderson
I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
Ian Anderson
I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.
Ian Anderson
Most of what I've written songs about are things that come out of the confusing emotional, spiritual and psychological period of time when you're going through puberty.
Ian Anderson
'Aqualung' marks the point at which I had the confidence as a songwriter and as a guitar player to actually pick up and play the guitar and be at the forefront of the band. It's also the album on which I began to address religious issues in my music, and I think that happened simply because the time was right for it.
Ian Anderson
Whether we're stuffing our faces with Kogi tacos or playing a pickup game of football outside the stages, there's never a shortage of fun behind the scenes on 'Murder In The First.'
Ian Anthony
Shadowing is really a great way to learn how the entire TV-making mechanism works. I had the distinct pleasure of shadowing the gifted and talented Allison Anders, who taught me a great deal about the importance of collaboration and trusting the talent around you.
Ian Anthony
A lot of the time, a moral compass is all that separates a hero from being a villain; otherwise, the two are very much the same. Both are generally the richest and most complex characters, and they get to have all the fun. I guess it's those types of roles that I ultimately gravitate towards.
Ian Anthony
There was a time when I was offered two episodes of 'Alias,' that show with Jennifer Garner which J.J. Abrams did back before he became the mega producer and super successful director. I instead decided I wanted to play this family guy on a short-lived UPN 'Second Time Around.' It starred Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker.
Ian Anthony
I am quite handy; not to sound bragadocious, but I've been working with wood and building things my entire life. I used to be a skateboarder and built ramps with my father. Then, the first two years I lived in Los Angeles, I worked as a carpenter building sets.
Ian Anthony
I was one of the only people of color at my grade school and also my high school. It's weird recollecting on my childhood, I think, because my brothers are all white. We all share the same father but different mothers. I guess I kind of associated white, but I was occasionally reminded in a really negative way that I wasn't.
Ian Anthony
Moving to Los Angeles and working in places like Hawaii, you get to experience a true melting pot. It's really nice to be around people who are multiethnic.
Ian Anthony
'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
Ian Anthony
So many good fortunes have come my way, and I'm trying to pay it forward by helping to raise money to complete 'BulbulSong Of The Nightingale,' a documentary that brings attention to the social and human injustices suffered by the Banchara tribe in India.
Ian Anthony
We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.
Ian Anthony
Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
Ian Anthony
As an Asian-American actor, I believe it is important to never settle for the status quo. I feel a responsibility to do everything in my power to create positive perceptions of Asian Americans through my work.
Ian Anthony
I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.
Ian Anthony
One of my favorite experiences in my career, certainly one of the most interesting characters I've ever played, was Simon Lee on 'The Event.' That was a show I was quite proud of and a character I really enjoyed playing. It was one of the most three-dimensional characters that was ever written for me and that I'd ever gotten to play.
Ian Anthony
I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.
Ian Axel
There are people we look up to, like Lady Gaga and what she's built. She's not afraid to own who she is.
Ian Axel
We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew that he wrote his own music, and he seemed nice, so I found out he was going to be in a practice room, practicing his trumpet. He'd already said he was too busy to hang out or hear any new people or work on any music, so I stalked him.
Ian Axel
I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I don't remember when I wasn't playing piano. My second grade talent show was the first time I performed my own thing. I dressed up as Dracula and played a song called 'Monster Rock' that I wrote. And I won.
Ian Axel
Producers on Broadway approached us with an original script after relaunching ourselves as 'A Great Big World,' and wanted us to write the music. They asked us to make the music we would sing if we could, and so we can go a little crazier. We refer to it as 'our music on steroids.'
Ian Axel
When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen.
Ian Axel
It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
Ian Axel
I feel that when Chad is in the room, I can tap into this other thing where music comes from. I don't know. It's just this really magical, special connection and relationship.
Ian Axel
We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.
Ian Axel
When I retired from the circus at the grand old age of 11, my parents thought it would be best to focus more on the challenges ahead, and so I started at Methodist College Belfast.
Ian Beattie
When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
Ian Beattie
If Northern Ireland had better weather, it would be like New Zealand. It's an immensely beautiful country.
Ian Beattie
I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.
Ian Beattie
As an actor myself, I know we go where the work is, but I think it's sad the Lyric haven't found any homegrown talent.
Ian Beattie
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!
Ian Beattie
What's happened has happened, so what can we do to make it better for tomorrow and the day after? That's why we're here.
Ian Botham
To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.
Ian Botham
If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?
Ian Botham
Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.
Ian Botham
Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
Ian Botham
I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.
Ian Botham
I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.
Ian Botham
You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives.
Ian Botham
The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.
Ian Botham
I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test.
Ian Botham
The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates.
Ian Bothamd
I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.
Ian Botham
I'm not a great one for looking back.
Ian Botham
Genghis Khan was a fascinating man and way ahead of his time.
Ian Botham
There will be no politics, no ifs and buts; if we see something and feel that work needs to be done, we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects.
Ian Botham
I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.
Ian Botham
Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
Ian Botham
To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
Ian Botham
There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
Ian Botham
Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.
Ian Botham
I started doing karate when I was 11.Ian BrownDoing Karate Started
1'Psychedelic' means mind-expanding.
Ian Brown
My biggest fault is that I give people too much credit. Then they let you down. I'm 99.9 per cent perfect - that's how I look at myself and, therefore, everybody else too.
Ian Brown
We're against hypocrisy, lies, bigotry, show business, insincerity, phonies, and fakers.
Ian Brown
Getting a grey beard's not cool.
Ian Brown
I've never chatted up a girl in me life. I've always let girls come to me. I've never approached a girl to chat her up.
Ian Brown
People tend to settle for the fiver rather than going for the pot of gold.
Ian Brown
If I was in the gutter, and my kids lived on the kerb, I'd go and get a job in B&Q before I'd reform the Roses. I gave everything I had to the Stone Roses and ended up hitting a brick wall. I'm never going to give anyone a foothold on that wall again.Ian BrownStone Job Never
8By 1993, the Stone Roses had become this huge, beautiful cruise ship just floating about in the middle of nowhere with no captain.
Ian Brown
Hell is being stuck in a lift with Elton John and the Queen Mother.
Ian Brown
I liked him, that Jarvis Cocker. I like the fact he was androgynous, he could appeal to everybody. He wasn't just a lad pretending to be a thug.
Ian Brown
Some of the kids who discovered me from my 'F.E.A.R.' record or one of the U.N.K.L.E. tunes have said, 'I don't even like the Roses; I love your solo stuff.' I buzz off that.
Ian Brown
Since we were kids, we grow up believing that astronauts are heroes - that to go up in a rocket is a heroic thing. These guys are bigger than movie stars. To me, it's... all a well-dressed-up lie, basically. There's billions spent on rockets up there, and there's millions starving down here. It don't make sense to me.
Ian Brown
When you live in Manchester and it's raining every day, you've got to imagine the sun sometimes. When you're brought up in concrete, you aim for the green leaves. And when you get to the green leaves, you yearn again for concrete.
Ian Brown
We wrote 'Stellify' for Rihanna, but as we got to the end of writing it, I thought, 'You know what? I'm gonna keep this for myself. We'll give her another one.' She'd have probably sung it better, but it is too good for me not to do it.
Ian Brown
Belief outweighs talent. Self-belief's got me everything, self-belief.
Ian Brown
I am gentle. I think nearly everyone who makes music is sensitive - I don't care how hard they pretend they are.
Ian Brown
I was skint, and I had to move back to my mum and dad's house, back into the room I shared with my brother when I was a kid. I kept getting people on the streets telling me that they loved me; it didn't mean anything to me because I was still borrowing tenners off my pensioner father to go and get some chicken.
Ian Brown
We started out to finish groups like U2 - that was what it was all about.
Ian Brown
You're never going to improve on a Michael Jackson song if you cover it.
Ian Brown
You'll never find a Manchester band slagging off another Manchester band, but within each Manchester band, people will rip each other apart: Mondays, Smiths, New Order, Roses, Oasis.
Ian Brown
When the ravens leave the Tower, England shall fall, they say. We want to be there shooting the ravens.
Ian Brown
When I was 9, I was into T. Rex, Gary Glitter, and Alice Cooper. I knew The Beatles because my nan introduced me to them, but T. Rex was the first band I got into myself. I got 'Metal Guru' a few months after hearing 'Children of the Revolution' in Pwllheli in North Wales at a market.
Ian Brown
I wasn't on stage to be worshipped or for people to look up to me. I was with the crowd.
Ian Brown
One person might perceive me as godlike, and the next might think I'm a northern thug. I don't think I've done myself any favours... but I swear I've not had a proper fight since I was 14.
Ian Brown
One thing I've always loved and rated me dad for is that, because of him, I've never seen the Queen's Christmas speech.
Ian Brown
My sister bought me the Koran in 1990. I always thought the stories in it were magical.
Ian Brown
I'd like to change the world. Eradicate poverty, racism, and sexism... all the usual things.
Ian Brown
I see The Stone Roses in '89 as Technicolor: we were all about joy and possibilities of life.
Ian Brown
The Beatles were great; we know that. But we were trying to do a new thing. Why do we need to recreate the Sixties?
Ian Brown
Maybe if you see me begging on the streets, you might find me doing The Stone Roses the next day.
Ian Brown
People have to realise you don't help African children singing along to 60-year-old men playing their tunes from 40 years ago.
Ian Brown
I gave it up three weeks before my black belt, foolishly. I got to my third brown belt and must have trained for 18 months but never went for it. I was nearly 18 and got this thing in my head about, ' Who are they to grade me?' Trying to be a rebel when I should have done it. It's my only regret, not going for a black belt.
Ian Brown
In March 1977, I taped the single 'Career Opportunities' off Piccadilly Radio, which was the '70s equivalent of downloading, and then the album came out in April 1977.
Ian Brown
Stardom's transitory. Nothing really changes except people's attitudes.
Ian Brown
I wrote a lot of lyrics in prison, but they'd all be like, 'Crawls upon the shoulders, hatred in the eyes.' I wrote about 50 songs in there that were all about jail. I've come out and thought, 'I've only served eight weeks; I can't really write a concept album about jail.'
Ian Brown
I went to a friend's 40th in Manchester, and there was a karaoke machine, and no one was having a go. My mate said, 'No one's singing because you're in the room.' I said, 'Who am I, Frank Sinatra?' They made me sing flipping 'My Star' to a backing track that sounded like '80s Roxy Music. It was pretty embarrassing, but I did it.
Ian Brown
I love people, me, I believe in people. I love people too much.
Ian Brown
Even on songs we've got that are about a girl, there's always something there that's a call to insurrection.
Ian Brown
Northern soul was huge in Manchester in the '70s and '80s; I went to a lot of all-nighters.
Ian Brown
I've always said prayers.
Ian Brown
Everything I've ever achieved, I've done on my terms.
Ian Brown
I love karaoke - I usually do Blondie's 'Heart Of Glass,' or 'Try A Little Tenderness.'
Ian Brown
The jails are full of kids from kids' homes. You're 16 years old, and you're out on the street. How you going to fend for yourself at 16 if you've not had an education? You're going to turn to crime.
Ian Brown
We should be growing carrots up the side of the Empire State Building or Big Ben.
Ian Brown
I've got six solo albums. I've been round the world three times. I don't even think about the Roses
Ian Brown
I don't like to play anywhere with a banner for Carlsberg or vodka or whatever. I'm not a drinker myself, and I don't like feeling like I'm working for the liquor companies.
Ian Brown
Everybody is a star. It's true. And if you've got a light, don't let it go out. 'Cos some people sink under.Ian BrownLight True People
I feel like the Ryan Giggs of music.
Ian Brown
We're all anti-royalist, anti-patriarch. Cos it's 1989. Time to get real.
Ian Brown
When The Stone Roses first came out, the early reviews called me 'simian.' I had to look that up at the time.
Ian Brown
I thought it would be more interesting to make a musical autobiography than an actual autobiography.
Ian Brown
Just because I'm a successful singer who's loved and has been loved for years doesn't mean I'm sitting behind electric gates in my own fantasy land.
Ian Brown
I'm solo, and I love being solo. I believe I went through the Roses so I could become a solo music-maker. That's what I believe.
Ian Brown
I don't actually personally get off on guitar music.
Ian Brown
I like a lot of that Chicago stuff, house music.
Ian Brown
It's a horrible name, Coldplay. It doesn't conjure up any positive thoughts.
Ian Brown
I'd like to write songs for other people, see things from a different perspective. I'd like to watch things from the dugout instead of the pitch.
Ian Brown
Putting another human being above yourself isn't healthy. I think it's capitalistic.
Ian Brown
I used to be one of those kids who couldn't keep my mouth shut.
Ian Brown
Oasis are okay, but they're like The Sun: base.
Ian Brown
I started managing myself in October 2004, and since then, it's gone up and up.
Ian Brown
They've had a hard life, the Oasis brothers. They've done really well to be semi-normal. It's always sad when your dirty linen is brought out in public.
Ian Brown
I'd love to see the world without liquor for a week.
Ian Brown
People in Russia learned English off the Beatles. People in Japan learned English off the Stone Roses. Noel Gallagher says music can't change the world, but the Roses made him want to start a group, so it changed his world.
Ian Brown
I can't think of anyone who's reformed for art's sake. That's why the Roses will never reform.
Ian Brown
I was really into punk when I was about 14.
Ian Brown
The Roses should have made it as the biggest band since The Beatles, but we didn't.
Ian Brown
Even me mum can't tell me what to do.
Ian Brown
I spent the summer of '88 indoors, writing 'Shoot You Down,' 'Bye Bye Badman,' and 'Don't Stop.'
Ian Brown
You're never alone on the dole in Manchester.
Ian Brown
People want to adulate people.
Ian Brown
I was jailed for using words that I still dispute. Anyone who's ever met me will tell you that I'm not a violent person.
Ian Brown
I'm lucky enough to be one of them music makers who can do a dance festie or a rock festie.
Ian Brown
At primary school, I thought I was George Best. Then I got to secondary school, and it was more serious.
Ian Brown
We need to ban all air-freighted food. Carrots from Holland. Potatoes from Egypt. It's got to stop.
Ian Brown
Permacultures - where you use the immediate environment to grow food - should be mandatory.
Ian Brown
I'm only really good at making music. I wasn't convinced when I started out, but then I heard the first Stone Roses' LP.
Ian Brown
I give thanks for everything that's ever happened to me and for everything I've got.
Ian Brown
Honestly, going solo is the second best thing that's ever happened to me after my kids.Ian BrownBest Me Solo
It is a fact that everyone's got a limited run in music - but who's to say how long that run lasts? I used to think that there would be no way I'd still be in music when I was 40. I used to think anyone who was 40 was an old man, and they probably shouldn't be doing it anymore.
Ian Brown
I feel like I've established myself as a music maker in my own right.
Ian Brown
I'd never been paid for the first Roses LP - it was 2002 before we received any royalties.
Ian Brown
My wife is Mexican, and she's really influenced me: She's got an impressive collection of Mexican music.
Ian Brown
If you want to call me a Karaoke King, I'll take it.
Ian Brown
Every time I do interviews, they ask me about the same things - poverty, war, and the power of the church.Ian BrownPower Time War
I love harmonicas - old blues players like Sonny Boy Williamson.
Ian Brown
I've not thought about the Stone Roses since we quit. How many LPs do I have to make to stop people talking about it?
Ian Brown
With the Stone Roses, I always thought we'd be successful because we had some great songs.Ian BrownGreat Always Stone
29I always loved Oasis because when they came out, they did express that they loved us, and they saw that we did it, and they thought they could do it, too.
Ian Brown
I actually was able to give up shopping in February '99.
Ian Brown
We're the most important group in the world.
Ian Brown
We feel we're the only British group worth exporting since the Sex Pistols, definitely.
Ian Brown
I never wanted to be a pop singer, but I always watched pop programs and knew I could do better than the people I was seeing.
Ian Brown
I like the fact that a group can become successful, and by way of what you are, you can show up all the other people who are around you.
Ian Brown
We believe that anyone can do anything, and everyone's a star. And that's evident from the shows we do. It just feels like a whole bunch of people in a room celebrating something - maybe just being alive.
Ian Brown
With the Roses, I knew we were great; I felt that we would achieve something. On my own, I had no idea.
Ian Brown
I feel like the Roses were a great group, but I never wanted to try to do it again. I knew I couldn't get a band that would compare to the Roses, that would have an impact like the Roses.
Ian Brown
I went into jail with absolutely no respect whatsoever for authority, and I came out with even less.
Ian Brown
England's a small nation, and the pop music industry is built on fashion.
Ian Brown
'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.
Ian Caldwell
The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
Ian Caldwell
I write about modern people who share a deep sense of connection to the mysteries of the past. I find that I understand myself and my world better when I'm able to peer into history as a mirror.
Ian Caldwell
The Vatican has to strike a difficult balance between running a country and running a religious institution.
Ian Caldwell
Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
Ian Doescher
In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V, which relied on a chorus to explain in words the battles of Harfleur and Agincourt that could never be captured on the Elizabethan stage.
Ian Doescher
The hardest part of writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was probably the sheer amount of iambic pentameter and tiptoeing around certain scenes I knew would be hot-button issues for 'Star Wars' fans.
an Doescher
I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
Ian Doescher
I've spent so much time with iambic pentameter that I can now recognize it when I hear it in conversation or a movie - it's like a weird, useless superpower.
Ian Doescher
The Ewoks were definitely a challenge of writing 'The Jedi Doth Return.' After having done so many things with characters who don't speak English, how was I going to make them stand out? Jedi is also rich with emotional material, particularly Darth Vader's transformation from the dark side back to the good.
Ian Doescher
I always wanted Han Solo's confidence and swagger. My personality is way more C-3PO, but Han was always who I wanted to be.
Ian Doescher
I grew up with the 'Star Wars' movies since before I have many memories. We had them on VHS back in the day, so they were part of the fabric of growing up in my family.
Ian Doescher
People ask me whether I see 'Star Wars' as a comedy or a tragedy, but it's really neither - it's partly a history, like 'Henry V,' and partly a fantasy, like 'The Tempest.'
Ian Doescher
Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away.
Ian Doescher
In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the original script and add asides, soliloquys and even new scenes. The main characters all get a soliloquy or two - or in Luke's case, several.
Ian Doescher
When I'm training a dog, I develop a relationship with that dog. He's my buddy, and I want to make training fun.
Ian Dunbar
Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.Ian DunbarOpportunity Training Interaction
With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things.
Ian Dunbar
I grew up on a farm and my grandfather quit school when he was 12, but when it came to common sense and animals, he was the smartest person I've ever met, before or since. He taught me that to touch an animal is an earned privilege. It's not a right.
Ian Dunbar
You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You train him using life rewards.
Ian Dunbar
Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, 'I want to improve my parenting - let's see how the chimps do it!'
Ian Dunbar
All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.
Ian Dunbar
Training a dog, to me, is on a par with learning to dance with my wife or teaching my son to ski. These are fun things we do together. If anyone even talks about dominating the dog or hurting him or fighting him or punishing him, don't go there.Ian DunbarLearning Wife Together
You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.
Ian Dunbar
People - and dogs - are dying to be trained.
Ian Dunbar
Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
Ian Dury
I haven't shaken my fists at the moon.
Ian Dury
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
Ian Fleming
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
Ian Fleming
A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.
Ian Fleming
As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
Ian Fleming
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
Ian Fleming
Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes', otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.
Ian Fleming
It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
Ian Fleming
A woman should be an illusion.
Ian Fleming
Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.
Ian Fleming
Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.
Ian Fleming
One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, 'My God, that's the dullest name I've ever heard,' so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one.
Ian Fleming
As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.
Ian Fleming
Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.
Ian Fleming
Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.
Ian Fleming
People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.
Ian Fleming
Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
Ian Fleming
I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.
Ian Fleming
I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.Ian FlemingLife Great Step
18If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
Ian Fleming
I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.
Ian Fleming
This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
Ian Fleming
Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
Ian Frazier
Siberia is a state of mind.
Ian Frazier
You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
Ian Frazier
America to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I'm not in, and then I get there and find myself in a traffic jam going into the Lincoln Tunnel, and I think, 'God, why was I romanticizing this part of the country?' I think it has to do with the romantic, unrealistic temperament.
Ian Frazier
I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.Ian FrazierWork Dress Me
Leading economists have shown that by shrinking Texas, we can actually create more income for Texas in the long run.
Ian Frazier
When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West.
Ian Frazier
I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
Ian Frazier
There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
Ian Frazier
I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.
Ian Frazier
I believe that when Crazy Horse was killed, something more than a man's life was snuffed out.
Ian Frazier
With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily.
I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.
Ian Frazier
America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time.Ian Frazier
I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
Ian Frazier
I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.
Ian Frazier
I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
Ian Frazier
Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.
Ian Frazier
People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.Ian FrazierHumor People Russia
I would hate to see the idea of freedom disappear, and I wonder if maybe it will.
Ian Frazier
Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.Ian Frazier
Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.
Ian Frazier
Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.
Ian Frazier
I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
Ian Frazier
I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I'm content with what little religion I already have.
Ian Frazier
I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
Ian Frazier
When I go to Indian reservations in the West, and especially to the Pine Ridge Reservation, I sometimes feel unsure where to put my foot when I open the car door. The very ground is different from where I usually stand. There are fewer curbs, fewer sidewalks, and almost no street signs, mailboxes, or leashed dogs.
Ian Frazier
Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended against them.
Ian Frazier
Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.
Ian Frazier
Russians don't complain, usually.
Ian Frazier
I'm one of those people who happen to like trees. I don't know why - I just do. As a kid, I loved to climb them. The distant, upper branches, especially, were celestial and alluring.
Ian Frazier
When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
Ian Frazier
To me, a bag in a tree is like a flag of chaos, and when I remove it, I'm capturing the flag of the other side. In the end, it doesn't matter how ironic or serious or even effective on a larger scale bag snagging may be.Ian FrazierTree Bag Me
32Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
Ian Frazier
On two or three book tours, I have visited bookstores in the Mall of America and signed copies of my books and introduced myself to store employees who I hope will sell them.
Ian Frazier
I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.
Ian Frazier
A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.
Ian Frazier
I'm very grateful for the other bands and artists that stood up for us with a view to our induction - that's nice of them. But I wish that the Hall Of Fame had had the discretion to ask us first. It's now become a debate in which we are too late to have the final word.
Ian Gillan
It means a lot to a lot of people, 'Smoke On The Water.'
Ian Gillan
When I'm writing with Tony Iommi, for example, still it's very easy. We go in, and I know exactly what his style is. It's very distinctive, and you know exactly what he's looking for, and we know exactly where we're going from the first chord.
Ian Gillan
Internet is a good and convenient device for us for easy communication. It has lots of value.
Ian Gillan
My first contract was in 1965. There were six of us in this band - my band before Deep Purple - six in the band plus management, and the entire royalty rate was three-fourths of 1 percent.
Ian Gillan
I realised that if I wanted to carry on with my musical dreams, I had to change, so I started meditating, and I changed my life entirely.
Ian Gillan
When we arrive at the studio, we put the kettle on, have a cup of tea, say, 'How's the family? You still got that old car? Is that dog still alive?' and then we start jamming. That's how the songs get written.
Ian Gillan
Glenn Hughes is one of the most naturally talented musicians, but he's still copying Steve Wonder to this day, so I can't call him a bona fide member of Deep Purple.
Ian Gillan
We've been touring ever since we were able to afford to buy a van, and I don't think we'll ever stop until something falls off or is irreparable.
Ian Gillan
I hate it in America where the protocol seems to be you are expected to tip regardless of the quality of service. I like to tip when it's not being demanded of me, and if the service has been good, I tip quite generously.
Ian Gillan
I've tried to avoid the rock & roll highway and have taken the scenic route. I think all the guys have been more concerned with the music and the band's legacy than with the commercial aspects of life.
Ian Gillan
Deep Purple was sinking with Ritchie. We were playing to quarter houses in Europe, which is one of our strongest territories - in Germany. Smaller venues, and they weren't even full. So had we continued that way, and had Ritchie not walked out, we would have finished; that would have been the end of it.
Ian Gillan
I once wrote a song called 'No Laughing in Heaven,' which was about not wanting to go to Heaven due to the company I'd be keeping, and with a few exceptions, the Hall of Fame is pretty much the same thing.
Ian Gillan
I grew up moving from one council flat to another and finished up in a three-bedroom semi-detached on a council estate in Cranford, a suburb of Hounslow. This was in the days when there was still rationing, and we had to be thrifty.
Ian Gillan
There used to be a time when people used to hold up cigarette lighters and candles at concerts, and the place was aglow to celebrate the end of the evening, or during a slow song, there was this congregational euphoria that used to exist. It still does, but now it's a question of iPhones being held up.
Ian Gillan
I do ironing not only for myself but for everyone at home, everyone in the studio if they want it, and if I run out of ironing to do, I put everything back in the washing machine and get it out again clean so I have some ironing to do.
Ian Gillan
My grandad was an opera singer, my uncle a jazz musician; I was a boy soprano in the church choir. But the first performance with Deep Purple was something I'll never forget. All elements were working brilliantly.
Ian Gillan
'Smoke On The Water' was ignored by everybody to begin with. We only did it in the shows because it was a filler track from 'Machine Head.' But then, one radio station picked up on it, and Warner Bros. edited it down to about three and a half minutes. It then started getting played by lots of different radio stations.
Ian Gillan
I used to do interviews - I still do - interviews every day, all day. And you go from maybe doing a couple of professional interviews, where you can hear the sound right, to everyone else sounds like they're at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
Ian Gillan
I don't think happiness comes with money, but if you are hungry, you can't be as happy as if you aren't hungry.
Ian Gillan
I've always been optimistic - I always expect the sun to come out.
Ian Gillan
'Classic rock' is never a label that we've given ourselves - it's one of the many labels that's been imposed on us.
Ian Gillan
I can't do one thing at a time. If I'm writing song lyrics, I've got to be doing the ironing or cooking or something while I'm working. If I just sit there and stare at the walls, I get nothing.
Ian Gillan
I've played football with George Best, the greatest footballer that ever lived. That doesn't make me a footballer. And I've sung a duet with Pavarotti. That doesn't make me an opera singer. I can write and I have a story to tell, but I'm not going to make a career out of it.
Ian Gillan
We soaked up everything from Beethoven to Chopin to Jimi Hendrix to Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan.Ian GillanEverything Up Bob Dylan
Elvis's voice was unique. Like so many others, he had natural, technical ability, but there was something in the humanity of his voice, and his delivery.
Ian Gillan
One of my greatest pleasures is writing on my Web site.
Ian Gillan
Life's not so rocky now. It was very volatile when you're young: you've got no experience. Your sense of disappointment is far greater; your sense of success is overwhelming. And then you've got the emotional conflict within any group that you're not mature enough to deal with until you get older. It levels out.
Ian Gillan
The Hall Of Fame thing, it's an American thing. We don't have that in England or Germany or Australia or Russia or anywhere in the world apart from America. And it's an institution. What's that got to do with rock and roll?
Ian Gillan
When you think about it, we sold about 120 million records, which relates to about £1.2 billion in the U.K. economy. We've seen very little of that.
Ian Gillan
I'm completely irresponsible, I'm afraid. I'm ignorant about money as a commodity - I have never really understood it.
Ian Gillan
I think there's something about having a purpose in life and a sense of belonging that is more important than money for any human being.
Ian Gillan
I assume I must have a pension, but I don't know for sure. I have heard of ISAs, but I can't tell you if I have any.
Ian Gillan
My father was a storekeeper at a factory in west London.
Ian Gillan
In the early Seventies, I bought a dilapidated hotel in north Stoke for about £100,000 and spent the same amount again renovating it, putting in a guitar-shaped swimming pool, painting the bathrooms purple, and installing gold dolphin taps.
Ian Gillan
Ian Gillan
When I picked up my guitar, I spent the first day learning the chord E, the second day A, then B7, and all of a sudden, I could play the blues.
Ian Gillan
I sang 'Nessun Dorma' twice with Pavarotti, and he told me he'd heard 'Smoke' about five or six times, and every time was different. He was so jealous because if he deviated one jot from the traditional interpretation of the famous arias, he'd be crucified. We have the freedom.
Ian Gillan
Our partying was governed by licensing hours. When the pub or club shut, that would be it.
Ian Gillan
What happens is we finish the show, have a couple of drinks, go back to the hotel, talk, and that's it.Ian GillanHotel Talk Happens
I've been in music all my life.
Ian Gillan
We have been called old rockers, rock pensioners, and dinosaurs.
Ian Gillan
Purple - I mean, the music and the influence and the subliminal touches range from orchestral conversation to jazz to blues and soul and God knows what. It's a vast range of expressions.
Ian Gillan
I love extended solos. I used to like them in the old days a lot, because it used to give me time to go to the pub for a drink.
Ian Gillan
I like walking and hiking, and many of the ideas for songs have germinated from this.
Ian Gillan
There's a wonderful woodland, spiritual song I wrote in Undercliff in Lyme Regis, and I used to walk up there with my dog and always come back with an idea.
Ian Gillan
I'm not a writer; I'm not a novelist.
Ian Gillan
I was an avid collector of Elvis' early stuff; for a young singer, he was an absolute inspiration. I soaked up what he did like blotting paper. It's the same as being in school - you learn by copying the maestro.
Ian Gillan
It was immaterial to me that Elvis didn't write his own songs. Those were very different days, and he selected whatever suited him best from material supplied by publishing houses and teams of writers - all of whom were extremely conscious of his style of delivery.
Ian Gillan
Although he appeared in some awful movies, Elvis could also be pretty damn good as an actor.
Ian Gillan
I know in my heart of hearts that Ritchie Blackmore is one of the great guitar players of all time. He's a fabulous technician, and he's got incredible skills, and he was a great showman.
Ian Gillan
The biggest income we make is from live performances, without any doubt. That's about a 4-to-1 ratio from anything else.
Ian Gillan
We always used to describe ourselves as an instrumental band. Basically, the music was always instrumentally based, so the songs always came later.
Ian Gillan
I've never listened to any of Purple Mk III's records.
Ian Gillan
If you think of a solo artist, you normally know them by their name; you don't normally describe their kind of music. You just say, 'It's so and so, or it's so and so.' But with bands, everyone feels an obligation to categorize them.
Ian Gillan
It's a fine line between self-assuredness and arrogance.
Ian Gillan
No matter what I do, I've always recognized that Deep Purple is primarily an instrumental band. That's where all the music comes from in rehearsals - it all stems from the music.
Ian Gillan
I have got a good imagination.
Ian Gillan
If you've got a wound, and it's just about to heal up, and it's got a nice scab on it, and you think in two or three days, that's gonna be completely healed, then somebody comes along and pokes it with a stick, and it opens up again. And that's what happens with the Ritchie-and-Deep Purple situation.
Ian Gillan
I remember my uncle, who was a jazz pianist, when we did Deep Purple 'In Rock,' he ran from the room screaming, holding his ears: 'I can't hear anything. I can't hear any instruments.' And I was rubbing my hands going, 'Great.'
Ian Gillan
In Poland, the whole saying is, 'You've got one eye to Morocco and the other to the Caucasus.' That's the heart of the culture. In England, they say it less romantic: 'You've got a wandering eye.' The saying means my main stream in life must be Deep Purple. That's my main job. Then every now, and I can wander off and have one eye to Morocco.
Ian Gillan
I love Buffalo. The people here are wonderful, genuine; they look you straight in the eye.
Ian Gillan
The thing to remember when you're re-recording pieces from the past is that you have to have respect for the original performances, recordings, and arrangements.
Ian Gillan
I write every day.
Ian Gillan
You can never criticize a monumental musician like Jon Lord or Richie Blackmore, or the part they played in the group, but life goes on.
Ian Gillan
The people who come to Purple shows are there for the music.
Ian Gillan
I think you function much better when you trust people and when you've got a sort of relationship where you can develop ideas within a framework.
Ian Gillan
I know the guys in Metallica. I'm very honored that they were influenced by Deep Purple when they started, and they've always been very kind to us.
Ian Gillan
The reason 'Fireball' is my favorite album of that period is that without 'Fireball,' we would never have been able to make 'Machine Head.'
Ian Gillan
The band's a really close-knit family. We've got fantastically good friendships and relationships that have developed after all these years.
Ian Gillan
If there was such a thing as a typical English gentleman in rock music, then it was Jon Lord.
Ian Gillan
To the general public in America, the lifespan of Deep Purple probably finished with our 1984 album, 'Perfect Strangers.'
Ian Gillan
The one thing nobody was taught was how to deal with success, and I think that happens to everyone who makes it at a young age.
Ian Gillan
We were the first generation of rock & roll, but life goes on.
Ian Gillan
Things evolve. People mature.
Ian Gillan
I have been touring since I got my first band in 1962, so there is no problem there. We are basically performing musicians, so that's what we do.
Ian Gillan
An album represents an artist or a band or a group of musicians at any given moment in time. You just produce the music that you feel good about and hope that the audience shows some interest in it.
Ian Gillan
I have heard that my Wikipedia entry is completely incorrect, but then again, so is everyone else's. I haven't bothered about that.
Ian Gillan
Can you imagine doing 'Nessa Dorma' with Luciano Pavarotti the maestro? It's unbelievable. He's a very generous man.
Ian Gillan
I have to think that 'Nessa Dorma' is the greatest rock ballad that's never been recorded as such.Ian GillanNever Rock Think
I don't think anyone likes to be pushed around.
Ian Gillan
I've consciously avoided actually reading anything about Wikipedia.
Ian Gillan
For a rock band, I didn't see the point in live albums. To my mind, you've got to be there.
Ian Gillan
Singles - we hated it, going on 'Top Of The Pops' and all that rubbish.
Ian Gillan
I was in a band called Episode Six with Roger Glover, which was more of a harmony band, really. At one gig, there were a few dodgy characters leaning up against the wall of the venue - and we ended up joining their band. Purple was the talk of every musician in the country - they had something new and very exciting.
Ian Gillan
I don't think we were anti-commercial. But we were anti-contrivance, and like Zeppelin, we found dignity through the music we were playing.
Ian Gillan
It wasn't slung together by a producer and a publisher. We decided we were going to take hold of our music and let it evolve organically.
Ian Gillan
Rock music had its own constituency, its own steering wheel. It was beyond the control of the establishment, and we saw TV as the enemy.
Ian Gillan
Infinity is almost impossible for an eight-year-old to grasp. It's an inquiring age, and you're beginning to shape your thoughts and questions about life in general at that stage.
Ian Gillan
When I was in my formative years, I rejected Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Andy Williams, and Dean Martin. I now realise they were all great artists, but at the time, as a young man, you have to clear the decks.
Ian Gillan
The only advice I can give is to absorb as much as you can from as wide a spectrum as you can. If you're in a rock band and only soak up Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple kind of beginnings, then you're not going to have much leeway.Ian GillanBlack Advice Purple
I've never been troubled by disappointment, and I get over it quickly. But I'm not good at making plans, and I don't have any ambitions. I never did.
Ian Gillan
When I was a kid, every street had a band, and we'd steal members from each other.
Ian Gillan
If you start adapting to audiences, you're really second-guessing the situation, and it becomes a bit more like cabaret.
Ian Gillan
The thing about a band is, it's not so much how good the musicians are - it's the blend of personalities and characters. It's the human chemistry that makes up a good team.
Ian Gillan
There's very little you can do these days about having any impact at a launch for a record unless you keep it very secret, because communications are so immediate, and YouTube and everything else kind of spoils the party.
Ian Gillan
When you're young, you're immortal, or so you think, and you never think there will be problems ahead.Ian GillanProblems Will Ahead
I've done a lot of research on science and theology to try and get a better understanding of what happens to the human soul or what potential it has.
Ian Gillan
feel very fortunate to have been able to do what I do for a living.
Ian Gillan
I wake up every day looking forward to the concert that night. I don't think you need much more inspiration than that.
Ian Gillan
In many cases, water stress is more about politics, economics, behaviour and governance than absolute water scarcity. Better planning is needed, to allocate water where societal need is greatest, and to allow trade-offs between alternative uses.
Ian Goldin
Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.
Ian Goldin
Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.
Ian Goldin
I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
Ian Goldin
4Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans.
Ian Goldin
We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.
Ian Goldin
People often focus on the downsides of population growth but neglect the upsides. These upsides may even outweigh the downsides, making a larger population a good thing overall.
Ian Goldin
My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix.
Ian Gomez
As a child, one of my defense mechanisms was to try to be funny. My mom tried to nurture that by putting me in acting class. But I got bored when we stopped pretending to be trees and actually had to work.
Ian Gomez
It's funny because 'Felicity' didn't have a huge following, but the following it did have is hugely devoted, so people who are fanatics about 'Felicity' would run up to me all the time. I'd be at a bar, and someone will go, 'Hey, were you on Felicity? ...' I loved doing the show.
Ian Gomez
I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A.
Ian Gomez
We come from Second City where you're taught if you make your fellow stage partner look good, that makes you look good.
Ian Gomez
Scott Foley was always fun because he's a very funny guy. So I liked working with him a bunch.
Ian Gomez
My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
Ian Gomez
I remember I got an ALMA award for an actor being on three shows simultaneously.
Ian Gomez
I have a speech impediment because I slur a lot, and they even make fun of me on 'Cougar Town' because there's certain word combinations that I just can't say.
Ian Gomez
When I got out of high school, I was working in restaurants in New York City, when I heard Bill Anderson from The Neighborhood Playhouse was doing private lessons. I started taking classes, and it was a lot of improv and Meisner and repetition.
Ian Gomez
Once you lose that fear, good stuff can happen because you're not in your head about whether it will suck. Once you don't care and accept that it probably will suck, then it probably won't suck.
Ian Gomez
People come up and say, 'Hey, I know you!' They're middle-aged women and big burly guys. They say, 'Don't tell anyone, but I watch Felicity, acnd I think it's great.'
Ian Gomez
Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.
Ian Hacking
The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.
Ian Hacking
It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
Ian Hacking
Every moral teacher or spiritual adviser gives injunctions about how to live wisely and well. But life is so complicated and full of uncertainty that rules seldom tell us quite what to do.
Ian Hacking
Great books are rare.
Ian Hacking
Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
Ian Hacking
It is a general truth that students of language in every era try to colonize some or all of the other human sciences.
Ian Hacking
Amartya Sen is best known to the general reader for his powerful essays on famine. He is an optimist about some of our gravest economic problems, such as mass starvation in a world that at present can easily produce more food than everyone can eat. Reason and voluntary participation are his watchwords.
Ian Hacking
What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
Ian Hacking
Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers.
Ian Hacking
A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.
Ian Hacking
Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
Ian Hacking
Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.
Ian Hacking
Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
Ian Hacking
If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.
Ian Hacking
I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.
Ian Hacking
I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.
Ian Hacking
I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
Ian Hacking
In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.
Ian Hacking
Foucault is one of many who want a new conception of how power and knowledge interact. But he is not looking for a relation between two givens, 'power' and 'knowledge.' As always, he is trying to rethink the entire subject matter, and his 'knowledge' and 'power' are to be something else.
Ian Hacking
One ought to begin an analysis of power from the ground up, at the level of tiny local events where battles are unwittingly enacted by players who don't know what they are doing.
Ian Hacking
Foucault's genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these stage settings into clues to a hitherto un-thought series of confrontations out of which, he contends, the orderly structure of society is composed.
Ian Hacking
Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
Ian Hacking
If you are a researcher and want to publish a paper, if you are applying for money either from a private or public foundation, you have to have a DSM code.
Ian Hacking
One of Kuhn's marvellous legacies is science studies as we know it today.
Ian Hacking
The stability of what's called the Standard Model of particle physics and its ability to make so many clever predictions with immense precision suggests that we may just be stuck with it, and there may never be an overthrow of that.
Ian Hacking
One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.Ian HackingScience People Things
Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
Ian Hacking
The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proportion of American parents care about what their children are taught in school.
Ian Hacking
The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum.
Ian Hacking
The public debate about evolution itself, as opposed to whether to teach it, is something else. It is boring, demeaning, and insufferably dull.
Ian Hacking
Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.
Ian Hacking
Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.
Ian Hacking
All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.
Ian Hacking
We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.
Ian Hacking
Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.
Ian Hacking
Brain science will be the most popular science of the early twenty-first century.
Ian Hacking
The walking wounded, impaired in life and dissected in death, were our primary clues to where and how parts of the brain work.
Ian Hacking
Life on a factory farm is well-nigh unbearable for the animals or birds, and it is often foul for the women and men who process the meat that results - especially in factories for chicken parts. But do not sentimentalize. Do not imagine barnyard life is a bowl of cherries.
Ian Hacking
Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
Ian Hacking
Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
Ian Hacking
Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
Ian Hacking
Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
Ian Hacking
As a political metaphor, a revolution could, in that sense, mean only a return to better times, or to the true constitution: a ridding of excess or usurpers.
Ian Hacking
It is possible to argue that our present conception of revolution was staked out more securely in science than in political action.
Ian Hacking
Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
Ian Hacking
Kant taught us that we should follow just those rules of conduct that we would want everybody to follow. Few find this generalization of The Golden Rule a great help.
Ian Hacking
Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
Ian Hacking
The social risks that worry us are not a random bundle of frights.
Ian Hacking
However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really.
Ian Hamilton
But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.
Ian Hamilton
Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.
Ian Hamilton
But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.
Ian Hamilton
Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
Ian Hamilton
he same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
Ian Hamilton
People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is.
Ian Hamilton
What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.
Ian Hamilton
As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.
Ian Hamilton
For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.
Ian Hamilton
But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.
Ian Hamilton
I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.
Ian Hamilton
No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.
Ian Hamilton
I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions.
Ian Hamilton
My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.
Ian Hamilton
I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
Ian Hamilton
I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
Ian Hamilton
If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work.
Ian Hamilton
If someone was like, 'Describe yourself in one word,' I would never say, 'Handsome.'
Ian Harding
If astrology is real, I guess I'm a pretty quintessential Virgo.
Ian Harding
I changed my thinking on the whole subject of what it is to be attractive. It's fine, but I know that ultimately what I am and who I am is not cheekbones and a jawline, if you catch my drift. I ultimately know that who I am is not directly proportional to abs or straight teeth.
Ian Harding
There's so much that I want to see and do, and being megafamous is not on my to-do list.
Ian Harding
The upside of social media is you can craft how you want people to see you in some way.
Ian Harding
My mom is a pretty private person, and if I was making Snapchat videos of her all the time, I think, A, she would hit me, and B, she just wouldn't appreciate it. So I don't do it a ton.
Ian Harding
You have tours that go to certain parts of the world to see a specific type of bird, and then you come back to Hollywood, and you see tour vans that go around in hopes of catching a glimpse of Halle Berry going out to get a newspaper.
Ian Harding
I've been in different countries, and a girl will come up and say, 'I love you. We are going to get married someday!' And I'm like, 'You're 11!'
Ian Harding
If there were teenagers who had a video camera and saw what I did on a daily basis, they'd be bored out of their mind.
Ian Harding
My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army, but I never called them 'sir' or 'ma'am' or anything like that, and we never really moved around a lot because both my parents were stationed in D.C.
Ian Harding
My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.Ian HardingEducation History School
I always was getting into trouble some way, because I was really good at lying when I was a kid.
Ian Harding
12I get recognized in the street really frequently, which is really shocking. I'm excruciatingly wary of any female under the age of 19. Even when some of them come up to me, they're usually very cordial, nice and polite.
Ian Harding
Any skills that I have, I couldn't really make money with them. I would like to think that maybe I would be doing something in psychology or something of that nature because I love that vein of medicine - the getting down and getting nitty-gritty.
Ian Harding
14English was great because I could just write my opinion, and that was good enough. I was terrible in Math, even though I had amazing Math teachers. My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.Ian HardingEducation Good History
15It was awkward because the high school that I went to, my aunt taught at, it was this private boy's school in D.C. There were one or two teachers that I had the hots for, but never fully expressed my feelings because my aunt was always watching.
Ian Harding
'Pretty Little Liars' is very all-consuming of my time, but I guess it's a great problem to have... there have been other things that have come that were on the table and then were not.
Ian Harding
I'm all about being self-deprecating because I think it's hilarious.
Ian Harding
My life is one that I've aimed for - I've always wanted to be an actor who worked in film and television and was able to provide for himself and his family.
Ian Harding
My dad grew up in southern California and was a raging liberal.
Ian Harding
It's so ridiculous how you just get a call one day and go on an audition that can easily change your life for the next several years.
Ian Harding
It's really good to be a working actor.
Ian Harding
I'd always dreamed of being an actor and going out to Los Angeles or New York and being paid to do what you love, and then I went and did that, and it wasn't what I expected.
Ian Harding
A little while ago, I had this realization that so much of my happiness depended on what my career was looking like at that time, and that's, like, death of happiness right there.
Ian Harding
I love voiceovers. You get to show up for half a day and pay your mortgage. How great is that?
Ian Harding
I understand what I look like, and I understand the strengths I have, which is basic, generic white guy.
Ian Harding
My plan is to ride out my 30s with 'handsome man' parts, hit 40 and take some time off to have some kids, and then come back as Paul Giamatti.
Ian Harding
The great thing about being on a television show is that it usually provides you with fairly steady income so you can go and do things.
Ian Harding
As a child, my sister and I had very fruitful imaginations, and I would think that I wanted to be one profession or I'd want to have this experience in life. I realized it's not because I actually wanted to be a Coast Guard helicopter rescue pilot or something like that - I just enjoyed the idea of playing it.
Ian Harding
It's good to be a martyr for your art, but it's just such a waste of time.
Ian Harding
I think Ralph Fiennes has had a really wonderful career; there's something sort of classic about him. He does a bunch of different projects, but he approaches the work from a very sort of artful way.
Ian Harding
My social media world is detached from my friendship world. I'll have friends in real life that I don't follow on social media, because I don't really look at social media as the way of connecting to friends. For me, social media is like a business tool.
Ian Harding
If I want to communicate with fans, usually I go on Twitter.
Ian Harding
When I was a kid, I was very lucky that I grew up in suburban Virginia, which, at the time, felt like a grey area between rural and suburban, so there were a lot of forests and parks.
Ian Harding
I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was - ever.
Ian Hislop
I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
Ian Hislop
I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.
Ian Hislop
The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.
Ian Hislop
No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.
Ian Hislop
All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
Ian Hislop
This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
Ian Hislop
My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.
Ian Hislop
You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.
Ian Hislop
You have a huge amount of confidence when you're younger, which slowly ebbs away for the rest of your life. You think: 'No problem. I can do that. Why shouldn't I do it?'
Ian Hislop
For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose the wrong subjects at A-level. I read all the sciences to start with, and then had to admit, 'This isn't what I want to do' and changed course.
Ian Hislop
It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.
Ian HislopP
They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go in unless I'm convinced by the people who write them that they're true. And if I'm wrong, then so be it.
Ian Hislop
Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.
Ian Hislop
There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
Ian Hislop
I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.
Ian Hislop
I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
Ian Hislop
I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.
Ian Hislop
There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.
Ian Hart
I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25.
Ian Hart
I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.
Ian Hart
I just want to be rich and famous.
Ian Hart
You learn more doing than doing training.
Ian Hart
Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.
Ian Hart
I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky.
Ian Hart
I just wanna build momentum again. Keeping yourself in work is one thing, keeping yourself in good work's another. But if it doesn't work out, so be it. As the Taoists say, Learn to accept that which you cannot change.
Ian Hart
I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.
Ian Hart
I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
Ian Hart
Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.
Ian Hart
We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.
Ian Hart
I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
Ian Hart
Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.
Ian Hart
My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.
Ian Hart
I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door.
Ian Hart
Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
Ian Hart
Everyone should be good at what they do.
Ian Hart
That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
Ian Hart
I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.
Ian Hart
It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
Ian Hart
When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
Ian Hart
I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
Ian Hecox
Usually in a Smosh sketch, we get 60 shots, 12 hours to shoot - we're just going 'bam, bam, bam.'
Ian Hecox
Finding things to wear is what the Internet's for.
Ian Hecox
We're trying to always expand Smosh and make Smosh a big thing.
Ian Hecox
California must be a really big fan of the 'Hunger Games.' Because it's always catching fire.
Ian Hecox
We were very fortunate to be in YouTube in the very beginning. There wasn't a lot of content on there, so we were pretty easy to find on YouTube. That was really helpful in growing our channel.
Ian Hecox
I grew up with the great Sir Laurence Olivier, and I think it's fair to say that a lot of actors of my age were influenced by his very individual vocal delivery. He was a showman who would always play to the gallery.
Ian Holm
The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.
Ian Holm
All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
Ian Holm
I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo - it's hardly ever addressed to Ian Holm, in fact. My business manager drafts the replies, and then I pop in to the office and sign them, 'Bilbo!'
Ian Holm
'Whatever it takes' is my opinion of method acting and, indeed, any other kind of acting. Look at Brando and De Niro. But it's not my cup of tea.
Ian Holm
It's not easy to shout against real elements. The elements are big, and the human voice is very small.
Ian Holm
As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.
Ian Holm
Scarlett Johansson was wonderful in 'Lost in Translation,' and then, seemingly within a couple of weeks, she became completely Hollywoodised. I was shocked. I didn't recognise her. I hope to God it's just a phase.
Ian Holm
If everyone's ready for a shot to start, except for one actor who's intent on getting to the bottom of their soul, it can be a bit annoying.
Ian Holm
I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.
Ian Hunter
The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
Ian Hunter
It was a labor of love and they did really well.
Ian Hunter
Tell the truth.Ian HunterTruth Tell
Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.
Ian Hunter
What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.
Ian Jackson
I think you can expect Sony, in the case of PSP specifically, to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment, and take it to a brand new level.
Ian Jackson
I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
Ian Jackson
I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going to be the most successful product ever to come into the handheld environment, and it just happens to have a number of different functions.
Ian Jackson
I think PSP is going to be the most successful handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do in terms of the versatility, obviously you can download music to it, and you'll be able to enjoy all your great tunes on it.
Ian Jackson
If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certainly did it with PS2, and we are about to do it very rapidly with PSP. This is a whole new business for us, in terms of the handheld market, and we're going about it the right way.
Ian Jackson
We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.
Ian Jackson
Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed.
Ian K. Smith
I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
Ian K. Smith
People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.
Ian K. Smith
A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
Ian K. Smith
Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal growth.
Ian K. Smith
Death just comes, not happiness. Because when you're trying to find happiness, you're trying to navigate a very, very murky minefield of distractions, of disappointments, of deceptions. That's why you have to work on happiness.
Ian K. Smith
I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
Ian K. Smith
The idea behind diet confusion is, you have to keep your body off-kilter. So by changing the type of foods that you eat, the frequency of the foods that you eat, you can keep your metabolism revved up.
Ian K. Smith
Men, in fact, are excited and looking forward to settling down and having families and being true partners with women in relationships that are full of excitement, unpredictability, adventure, and loyalty.
Ian K. Smith
Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
Ian K. Smith
The critical part with meal spacing is that you stabilize your hormones so that you do not have those spikes in insulin that occur when you eat large meals.
Ian K. Smith
People think that you can save calories by eating fewer meals a day, but it works just the opposite: the fewer meals you eat, the more counterproductive it becomes to you being able to lose weight.
Ian K. Smith
People have to realize that dieting is not a sprint, it's a marathon. If you celebrate the small victories, you will eventually win the war.
Ian K. Smith
Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
Ian K. Smith
If you put too much pressure on the Palestinian Authority, it will collapse - it will disappear - and Israel will have to formally re-occupy the West Bank and assume responsibility for the Palestinians there. The United States doesn't want that. Israel doesn't really want that.
Ian Lustick
Most Israelis have a sense, 'We just don't want to live in the Middle East anymore. We don't want it to be the Middle East. Were going to just build a wall or operate unilaterally' - not try to even use force as used to be the case to convince Arabs to accept Israel by convincing them that Israel is here to stay and then negotiating.
Ian Lustick
Israeli governments cling to the two-state notion because it seems to reflect the sentiments of the Jewish Israeli majority, and it shields the country from international opprobrium even as it camouflages relentless efforts to expand Israel's territory into the West Bank.
Ian Lustick
Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.
Ian Lustick
The fact is that democracy anywhere in the world, including in the United States, is not something that comes easy. And yet, we are committed to it, and equality and democracy are the only ways in the long run that Jews will be safe in the Middle East.
Ian Lustick
There's still a role for the Association for Israel Studies. But not as the endpoint of scholarship and not as a fortress to defend Israel.
Ian Lustick
Strong Islamist trends make a fundamentalist Palestine more likely than a small state under a secular government.
Ian Lustick
What we have really now is a one-state outcome in which Israel is the one and only state between the Jordan River and the sea. It can do whatever it wants virtually throughout the area. But that's not the kind of a state that's going to be a basis for peace and stability in the region.
Ian Lustick
The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
Ian Lustick
The disappearance of Israel as a Zionist project, through war, cultural exhaustion or demographic momentum, is... plausible... Many Israelis see the demise of the country as not just possible, but probable.
Ian Lustick
My academic specialization is Arab-Israel relations.
Ian Lustick
Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
Ian Lustick
International peace and security depend on certain taboos that are easily recognized when they are broken. It can be more important for an intervention to take place because nuclear or chemical or biological weapons are used as opposed to just measuring how many people are killed.
Ian Lustick
There's a good lesson for policymakers: It's not the presence of the U.S. that is a problem for many people in the Arab region; it's the type of presence we bring.
Ian Lustick
From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.
Ian Lustick
I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.
Ian Lustick
Do I trust Yasser Arafat? Of course not. Why should I? Why should anyone trust a politician, whether Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Benjamin Netanyahu, George W. Bush, or Yasser Arafat?Ian LustickTrust Politician Why
Whether we agree with them or not, politicians aren't for trusting. They are for getting done what can be done to make really horrible problems into plain old lousy problems.
Ian Lustick
Most Israelis do want to keep Israel safe. The question is how do you do that.
Ian Lustick
As long as Hamas needs the support it could conceivably get from the international community through the Palestinian Authority, it has an interest in playing nice with Fatah. And Fatah has an interest in playing nice with Hamas because it needs some source of legitimacy on the West Bank.
Ian Lustick
The leadership of the Palestinian Authority is not held in high regard by most of the population of the West Bank. They're seen as living relatively high off the hog and certainly not accomplishing anything vis-a-vis the Israelis.
Ian Lustick
When people today say 'racism,' they mean it's a nationalism they don't like. Racialism used to be a good thing, a looking-out for what was best for one group... Israel comes out of that 19th-century idea of nationalism. Many Arab states also have preferences. It's fundamentally unfair to decide that one is racism and the others aren't.
Ian Lustick
For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
Ian Lustick
There is some big thing about the world that produced all these people willing to kill themselves just to hurt us. On 9/11 we learned we're part of that world, in the same completely crazy, drastic and arbitrary ways it hits other countries.
Ian Lustick
Just as a balloon filled gradually with air bursts when the limit of its tensile strength is passed, there are thresholds of radical, disruptive change in politics. When those thresholds are crossed, the impossible suddenly becomes probable, with revolutionary implications for governments and nations.
Ian Lustick
Peacemaking and democratic state-building require blood and magic.
Ian Lustick
I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.
Ian MacKaye
An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by.
Ian MacKaye
Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
Ian MacKaye
What I find interesting as a 40-year-old is the idea of trying to be a part of a pronounced, continuing independent culture. The basic tenet of America is that you rebel and then you get real.
Ian MacKaye
I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.
Ian MacKaye
I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.
Ian MacKaye
I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.
Ian MacKaye
To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
Ian MacKaye
And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?
Ian MacKaye
I've had people call me from bands that are very popular, and they're like, 'What do we do? We want to do what you do.' It's almost impossible to do what I do, because you would have to start in 1980. You can't just do it.
Ian MacKaye
The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.
Ian MacKaye
Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.
Ian MacKaye
Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.
Ian MacKaye
Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.
Ian MacKaye
When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance.
Ian MacKaye
My point of view is, I'm just a person, and there are times when I look at other people and think, 'My God, they spend so much time thinking about things that seem so absurd.' But I'm sure people must think the same thing about me.
Ian MacKaye
There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.
Ian MacKaye
I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent.Ian MacKayeListening Guy Skateboarder
I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.
Ian MacKaye
I just have work to do; I just do it.
Ian MacKaye
I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.
Ian MacKaye
I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.
Ian MacKaye
I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
Ian MacKaye
There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for the most part, quantity certainly does not speak well for quality.
Ian MacKaye
At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people.
Ian MacKaye
I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.
Ian MacKaye
Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.
Ian MacKaye
I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.
Ian MacKaye
My focus is always on the day. What I've done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an eye on it, and make sure it isn't abused, and obviously be thoughtful about it, because it's all real to me. I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all.
Ian MacKaye
Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.
Ian MacKaye
With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.
Ian MacKaye
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye
Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.
Ian MacKaye
I've always been a bit of a documentarian.
Ian MacKaye
The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
Ian MacKaye
I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.
Ian MacKaye
I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
Ian MacKaye
I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.
Ian MacKaye
I consider the guitar a tool for the most part. I do pick up the acoustic now and then, I certainly don't have any routine. Usually the only time I practice is when the band gets together. Hendrix has always been one of my favorite players, but I was a sucker for Nugent in the late 1970's.
Ian MacKaye
I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.
Ian MacKaye
When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point.
Ian MacKaye
To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back in time about 20 years later to play the same character who is your own age then, its very complicated, but very interesting.
Ian McDiarmid
That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
Ian McDiarmid
But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the middle with number Three, but I didn't realize he would move in with quite such a bang.
Ian McDiarmid
For me it's even more interesting, because my character comes out of the shadow. It's a chance to really act emotionally, because the situation is an extreme one.
Ian McDiarmid
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
There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double.
Ian McDiarmid
It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right
Ian McDiarmid
If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, and we shot this scene when we arrived in Australia during the actual filming of Episode 3.
Ian McDiarmid
The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen plays.
Ian McDiarmid
I'm the blackest villain of all time.
Ian McDiarmid
10I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.Ian McDiarmidFace Politician Easy
Consistency is very important when you're making films.
Ian McDiarmid
And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
Ian McDiarmid
Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
Ian Mcewan
London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.
Ian Mcewan
I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.Ian McewanLive Place Strangers
Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
Ian Mcewan
By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.
Ian Mcewan
It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
Ian Mcewan
The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.
Ian Mcewan
It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.
Ian Mcewan
What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.
Ian Mcewan
I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.
Ian Mcewan
At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
Ian Mcewan
We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.
Ian Mcewan
When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
Ian Mcewan
My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.
Ian Mcewan
One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
Ian Mcewan
You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
Ian Mcewan
I'm quite good at not writing.
Ian Mcewan
Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.
Ian Mcewan
One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
Ian Mcewan
A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.
Ian Mcewan
My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But he was very affectionate towards me.
Ian Mcewan
If I could write the perfect novella I would die happy.
Ian Mcewan
What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.
Ian Mcewan
What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?Ian McewanAttitude Strike Wants
I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.
Ian Mcewan
True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
Ian Mcewan
Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
Ian Mcewan
Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.Ian McewanGod Past Bad
You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.
Ian Mcewan
How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length.
Ian Mcewan
Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
Ian Mcewan
In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
Ian Mcewa
You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
Ian Mcewan
It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides of the debate have now become so tribal that it's no longer a matter of changing our views as more information comes in.
Ian Mcewan
Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.
Ian Mcewan
I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'
Ian Mcewan
I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I dug deep and dredged up all kinds of vile things which fascinated me at the time.
Ian Mcewan
Not being boring is quite a challenge.
Ian Mcewan
Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater.Ian McewanDay Words People
I often don't read reviews.
Ian Mcewan
I don't hold grudges.
Ian Mcewan
ist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.Ian McewanGod Moment Believe
I don't really believe in evil at all.
Ian Mcewan
I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.
Ian Mcewan
I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
Ian Mcewan
I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.
Ian Mcewan
I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.
Ian Mcewan
The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.
Ian Mcewan
I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.
Ian Mcewan
As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be.
Ian Mcewan
Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves.
Ian Mcewan
The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
Ian Mcewan
Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
Ian McKeever
I usually eat in my friend Tom Corcoran's place - the Siam Thai in Monkstown. I go there for a very large plate of beef in red wine sauce.
Ian McKeever
I have never had the money to make too many large purchases.
Ian McKeever
I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
Ian McKeever
I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.
Ian Mckellen
Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.
Ian Mckellen
I'm an eccentric English actor, and there's a lot of us around.
Ian Mckellen
The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.
Ian Mckellen
When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.
Ian Mckellen
When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.
Ian Mckellen
What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
Ian Mckellen
I certainly don't disparage someone whose attitude towards their work is utterly different from mine - that's up to them.
Ian Mckellen
There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
Ian Mckellen
Because I was in the business of translating the 'X-Men' from the very successful comics, and taking the most popular book of the 20th century in 'The Lord of the Rings,' and making it into three movies, I hope people realize I wouldn't get involved in anything I didn't think was really going to be worth their while.
Ian Mckellen
My ambition is to get better as an actor.
Ian Mckellen
I came rather late to film. I've done an awful lot of theater before - before I discovered the camera, you know, seeing everything, requiring much less acting and - and much less presentation, much less projecting, more just being.
Ian Mckellen
I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
Ian Mckellen
I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
Ian Mckellen
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
Ian Mckellen
I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.
Ian Mckellen
One school invited me down, as two pupils had come out, and the headmaster didn't know what to do about it. I said, 'How many students here are gay?' and he said, 'Just these two.' Clearly not. 'How many gay members of staff have you got?' He had no idea. And this was a concerned man.
Ian Mckellen
Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?
Ian Mckellen
The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
Ian Mckellen
Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
Ian Mckellen
I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be at his most insane, he is actually understanding the world for the first time.
Ian Mckellen
Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.
Ian Mckellen
I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.
Ian Mckellen
If we just made one movie, 'The Hobbit,' the fact is that all the fans, the eight-, nine- and 10-year-old boys, they would watch it 1,000 times. Now, they've got three films they can watch 1,000 times.
Ian Mckellen
I always walk up the escalator on the Tube, and I live in a house with a lot of stairs, and that's good exercise, but you need more than that.
Ian Mckellen
You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people.
Ian Mckellen
I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
Ian Mckellen
Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.
Ian Mckellen
To be allowed for the first time in your later career to play leading parts in extremely popular movies is not a situation to worry about.
Ian Mckellen
The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.
Ian Mckellen
There are some fantastic parts for older actors.
Ian Mckellen
I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
Ian Mckellen
There are people who've enjoyed my work in the theater, and they let me know that it was special for them. I'm not going to say, 'Well, you should have seen me as Gandalf!'
Ian Mckellen
When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.
Ian Mckellen
I learned that coming out was crucial to self-esteem.
Ian Mckellen
The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.
Ian Mckellen
Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.
Ian Mckellen
Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.
Ian Mckellen
I have lots of fans, they are mostly under the age of 12, boys and girls.
Ian Mckellen
It is really, really wonderful that in your old age you are protected by specialists who understand your problems and sort them out for you. Well, isn't that what we all need?
Ian Mckellen
There's lots of Tolkien that must be confusing to people.
Ian Mckellen
On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.
Ian Mckellen
My friends are my family.
Ian Mckellen
I got intrigued by working in small theatres.
Ian Mckellen
If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.
Ian Mckellen
Who does understand life?
Ian Mckellen
If you've been in a film that's seen by millions and millions and millions of people, you're more likely to be recognized for that than for your theater performances, which were seen by considerably less people. Why would I get upset by that?
Ian Mckellen
If I say often enough that I'm going to be in 'King Kong,' I'm hoping that Peter Jackson will take the hint.
Ian Mckellen
The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
Ian Mckellen
You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.
Ian Mckellen
The press like to talk to actors. They mustn't be surprised when actors talk back to them.
Ian Mckellen
I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'
Ian Mckellen
Anyone in public life who comes out, comes out primarily for themselves, and their life is immediately improved. That's what happened to me.
Ian Mckellen
I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims.
Ian Mckellen
I had never come across the 'X-Men' comics till I was asked to play Magneto, so I just jumped into that job.
Ian Mckellen
Gandalf saves the world and saves the soul of the world, really.
Ian Mckellen
I'll never put my memoirs in print.Ian Mckellen
I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.
Ian Mckellen
When I appeared in 'Coronation Street,' I lived in Manchester and enjoyed it very much.
Ian Mckellen
My own death threats have declined considerably.
Ian Mckellen
Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay.
Ian Mckellen
Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.
Ian Mckellen
I know actors who have had to turn down good roles because they just don't pay enough. It's hard.
Ian Mckellen
Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
Ian Mckellen
There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.
Ian Mckellen
How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
Ian Mckellen
I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'
Ian Mckellen
I remember Tom Stoppard saying to me when I came out, 'I feel so sorry for you, because you'll never have children.' These days I would say, 'Well, why not, Tom?'
Ian Mckellen
Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job.
Ian Mckellen
There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
Ian Mckellen
Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.
Ian Mckellen
I just followed my parents' example and advice on living, which was to leave the world a better place than you found it. They were professional do-gooders, ministers of the church, social workers, teachers, and missionaries, that sort of thing.
Ian Mckellen
Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
Ian Mckellen
I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
Ian Mckelle
Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene.
Ian Mckellen
'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that's challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics.
Ian Mckellen
I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'Ian MckellenBible Front Saying
17I think with Shakespeare you can be required to do absolutely anything at the turn of a sixpence - suddenly you go into a battle, suddenly you utter something passionate.
Ian Mckellen
What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
Ian Mckellen
In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.
Ian Mckellen
Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?
Ian Mckellen
You mustn't upstage the bride.
Ian Mckellen
It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
Ian Mckellen
'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.
Ian Mckellen
'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.
Ian Mckellen
There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud.
Ian Mckellen
The first film role I deliberately chose to play after I came out was a raging heterosexual, John Profumo.Ian MckellenFirst Play Role
There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.
Ian Mckellen
Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.
Ian Mckellen
I live for the text. It's my job.
Ian Mckellen
Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.
Ian Mckellen
In Singapore, Malcolm X type of activity would be extremely difficult because the government can be very harsh on lawbreakers.
Ian Mckellen
I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
Ian Mckellen
I certainly wouldn't define myself as a northerner. I'm not even really sure what that means. I've lived in London for 50 years. I wasn't born here, but I have spent most of my life here. So I don't make much of it, to be honest. I'm just myself.
Ian Mckellen
When I've been asked what should be on my gravestone, I've said: 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out.' Two big achievements.
Ian Mckellen
I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.
Ian Mckellen
I'm not someone who wears shades all the time and ducks into a darkened car in case I'm recognized - that would be absolute misery.
Ian Mckellen
I don't any longer make any quality judgement between theater and cinema. They are different experiences for the audience, and they also are for the actors - although they have a lot in common.
Ian Mckellen
Theatre is relatively easy if you're British - you're living in the theatre capital of the world, London - there are so many places you can work, still. If I had begun to think of myself as a film actor, I think I would have got distracted.
Ian Mckellen
If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy.
Ian Mckellen
If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed - I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart.
Ian Mckellen
It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
Ian Mckellen
It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.
Ian Mckellen
That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians.
Ian Mckellen
The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
Ian Mckellen
Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one.
Ian Mckellen
There's no sex in Middle Earth.
Ian Mckellen
I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else.
Ian Mckellen
Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.
Ian Mckellen
You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.
Ian Mckellen
I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, 'Do you need help, brother?' And $1 fell into my hat!
Ian Mckellen
When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing.
Ian Mckellen
There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've learnt how to do it. And I still have enough energy to do it.
Ian Mckellen
So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor
Ian Mckellen
There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company. But you also end up in the company of people you don't admire, including some rather dodgy politicians.
Ian Mckellen
'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
Ian Mckellen
The most likely explanation is the most practical. 'Macbeth' is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of 'Macbeth'. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.
Ian Mckellen
I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
Ian Mckellen
I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't.
Ian Mckellen
When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.
Ian Mckellen
We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out. So you can pick and choose and find something to energise you.
Ian Mckellen
I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.
Ian Mckellen
I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
Ian Mckellen
I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
Ian Mckellen
I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.Ian MckellenWorld New Think
5The spirit of the four hobbits in 'Lord of the Rings,' I suppose I miss that.
Ian Mckellen
You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
Ian Mckellen
Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.
Ian Mckellen
I love working in New York.
Ian Mckellen
The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
Ian Mckellen
10I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.Ian MckellenWork Always Better
I've always had very catholic tastes.
Ian Mckellen
'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.
Ian Mckellen
Before I ever acted as an amateur - which I did a great deal at school and at university - I used to go to the theater with my parents in the north of England, where I was born and brought up... Theater of all sorts.
Ian Mckellen
When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.
Ian Mckellen
I've got a waistline to develop.
Ian Mckellen
I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
Ian Mckellen
I used to comfort myself when I became an actor that it was a useful job, entertaining people. And it was important to do it as well as you possibly can.
Ian Mckellen
The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt - people hate gay people. Because the Bible tells them? No, the Bible tells them an awful lot of things that they ignore.
Ian Mckellen
When I was playing Gandalf, I didn't think, 'Oh my dear, I'm playing a 7,000 year old wizard,' because I've never met one, and I don't know what they're like.
Ian Mckellen
No actor wants to play to an empty house.
Ian Mckellen
I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
Ian Mckellen
I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
Ian Mckellen
There are a lot of actors - I'm probably one - who are most at home when they're on stage.
Ian Mckellen
Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
Ian Mckellen
Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.
Ian Mckellen
Bill Gallagher's new version of 'The Prisoner' is an enthralling commentary on modern culture. It is witty, intelligent and disturbing. I am very excited to be involved.
Ian Mckellen
It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
Ian Mckellen
One thing Middle-earth is short on is the feminine.
Ian Mckellen
No one seems to wash in Middle-earth.
Ian Mckellen
In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
Ian Mckellen
Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.
Ian Mckellen
Gandalf the Grey was always the guy I prefer. Gandalf the White was driven to do a particular job, whereas Gandalf the Grey is a bit more humane.
Ian Mckellen
Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.
Ian Mckellen
The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.
Ian Mckellen
I am lucky, I don't have aches and pains. I do Pilates regularly, which is a series of stretching exercises, and I recommend it to anyone of my age because the temptation is not to exercise when you get older. Well, you should.
Ian Mckellen
There's something wholesome about the theatre.
Ian Mckellen
Gandalf's a good guy, and it's a good part. He says the right things, he believes the right things. An actor can have fun with it.
Ian Mckellen
Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
Ian Mckellen
People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
Ian Mckellen
Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
Ian Mckellen
Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.
Ian Mckellen
In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom.
Ian Mckellen
In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.
Ian Mckellen
Fame creeps up on you.
Ian Mckellen
If you get criticized, good - I don't think people get criticized enough. People talk behind your back and they criticize you, but they don't often come up and say it to you.
Ian Mckellen
I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
Ian Mckellen
Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
Ian Mckellen
I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
Ian Mckellen
It's easier to go from theatre to film than the other way round. In film you're absolutely loved and cossetted and cared for. In film your director makes your performance. In theatre you're carrying it all.
Ian Mckellen
What's nice for me, having identified myself for years as being rather shy, is now, wherever I am, in public, there tends to be a friendly face who's pleased to see me, and I like that.
Ian Mckellen
Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.
Ian Mckellen
I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
Ian Mckellen
If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don't need to draw attention to yourself. It's all laid out for you.
Ian Mckellen
You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
Ian Mckellen
People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
Ian Mckellen
It's my impression that I've done every job that I've been asked to do.
Ian Mckellen
I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'
Ian Mckellen
If I was a star, it would be difficult to go off and do 'Coronation Street.' So I guess I'm not a star.
Ian Mckellen
I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the 'U.K. Sunday Times,' who championed me as Shakespeare's Richard II at the 1969 Edinburgh Festival.
Ian Mckellen
I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.Ian MckellenLove Enthusiasm Live
I've always felt that 'X-Men' was about something serious. It wasn't just fantasy.
Ian Mckellen
Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.
Ian Mckellen
I get pretty grumpy about TV.
Ian Mckellen
Quakers are terrific.
Ian Mckellen
Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.
Ian Mckellen
I like sleeping a lot.
Ian Mckellen
Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.
Ian Mckellen
length: 80You don't stop thinking about women just because your wife dies. It's terrible, but you know. I just want the hugs, the kisses. A kiss!
Ian McLagan
Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; that's what we played, you know? We were pretty much based on Booker T. and the M.G.'s.
Ian McLagan
I sing to my wife; it helps me. She was my muse. I've written so many songs about her, to her, with references to her, and still do. She's a big part of my life. We were together for 33 years. It actually does me good - she's with me all that time in that way.
Ian McLagan
My love for American music and American movies is from an early age. I was 10 or 11 when I heard Fats Domino and Little Richard and Buddy Holly. And the movies, my dad used to take my brother and I to the movies every Friday. It was incredible: we got to see just about every movie that came out for a period of years.
Ian McLagan
I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and somehow make a dollar here and there.
Ian McLagan
I was never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc. I loved the music Mods liked, and I loved the clothes, but I didn't have any money to spend on them.
Ian McLagan
We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
Ian McLagan
When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.
Ian McLagan
What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud.
Ian McLagan
I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.
Ian McLagan
The Small Faces are thought to be a one-hit wonder in America because we only had 'Itchycoo Park.' Then the Faces just had 'Stay with Me.' So both bands could be considered one-hit wonders in America, even though we had several huge hits in England.
Ian McLagan
The Small Faces was such a different band than the Faces. I know three of us are the same, but when you take Steve Marriott out, it's a very different band.
Ian McLagan
I'm terrible remembering lyrics. Before a tour, I have to remind myself. I have to go through the songs.
Ian McLaganMyse
I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers.
Ian McLagan
I only seem to date younger women.
Ian McLagan
It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
Ian McLagan
I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.
J Allard
Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.
J Allard
When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket.
J Allard
We didn't have our online service developed. We had never shipped a console game before as a company. So we were developing a lot of new competencies as a company and assembling a new team
J Allard
Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
J Allard
We're going to do something that's really unprecedented in the industry by launching the console in all three major markets for the same holiday. It's never been done before.
J Allard
The chips are in production, the machines aren't. So we've got a little bit of work left to do.
J Allard
Glasses, earrings, rings, sneakers. I love every little accessory.
J Balvin
It's all about the vibes. That's why it's called 'Vibras' in Spanish.
J Balvin
I have always been a big fan of watches.
J Balvin
I enjoy everything I do, from music to fashion or to watches - the lifestyle.
J Balvin
I'm just a regular guy trying to make my dream come true like everybody else.
J Balvin
As long as I keep it real, I learn something from everyone. And when you view yourself as a student and not as somebody who's bigger, there is still learning that can be done every day, and that keeps you open-minded and more ready to learn about life and love.
J Balvin
When I would go to the barrio, people saw me as a rich person, but when I'm around rich people, they see me as someone from the ghetto. It's all perceptions. I like moving between worlds. I feel equally comfortable in both.
J Balvin
Thanks to social media, we've also been able to show ourselves as we are. In the end, masks are useless. You have to be real.
J Balvin
I want to change the perception about Latinos worldwide. I think people don't know yet how cool we are.
J Balvin
If you really want to flex, you have to be real.
J Balvin
I moved to Oklahoma to learn English when I was 16 years old from Colombia for six months; then I moved to New York.
J Balvin
11I see myself like what Drake did in the game. I came with melodies and different lyrics, from a different place - reggaeton is from Puerto Rico; Drake is from Canada.
J Balvin
To tell you the truth, I used an Instagram filter called Ginza to share a snippet of the song - I simply left the name in the caption in case anyone wanted to use the same filter. But everyone started calling the song 'Ginza.'
J Balvin
I don't plan anything - I just let myself go with the flow.
J Balvin
I invite you to get out of the box, be yourself. If you have blue hair, pink, yellow; if you have a broken tooth; if you have other sexual preferences... be yourself. Fight for your happiness always.
J Balvin
When you maintain a closeness with your fans, they are more forgiving when you make mistakes.
J Balvin
I'm not a big fan of fame; I'm a big fan of success.
J Balvin
By erasing barriers of races, colors, continents, genres, or languages, we can achieve the whole world moving their head to the same beat.
J Balvin
My medium is music, but my goal is to motivate people to dream.
J Balvin
I don't pretend to be anybody else but me.
J Balvin
Music goes further than any border, any language.
J Balvin
'Mi Gente' is a song that embodies a special moment in music - a new sound of a Latino culture on the rise and being embraced globally.
J Balvin
Watches are about status.
J Balvin
For 10 years, I was my own label, my own promoter, my own PR. We borrowed money to print our CDs.
J Balvin
I believe that we are a result of our past.
J Balvin
Even though you don't understand what I'm saying, you are going to really feel it. The same thing happened to me when I used to listen to English music. I didn't even understand one word. You know? But it just makes me feel great.
J Balvin
I'm so grateful to Spotify for the enormous support to the reggaeton movement.
J Balvin
Just because you are Latino does not mean you can't be global.
J Balvin
I don't want to be a follower; I want to be a leader and create new waves.
J Balvin
Colombian culture has a lot of music - it's in our blood; it's in our DNA.
J Balvin
I'm no savior, and I'm no Robin Hood.
J Balvin
To me, family is first.
J Balvin
I like track suits and sometimes to be suited up. I like to be like a chameleon.
J Balvin
I'd love to work with people like Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Rihanna, Bruno Mars, and The Weeknd.
J Balvin
Camila Cabello, she's great.
J Balvin
There are so many artists that have inspired me.
J Balvin
We are proving that Latinos have the power to connect with an audience on a global level without having to leave our identity behind.
J Balvin
When you see a movie, they always put the Latino on the bad side or in a tacky way. It's not like that. Latinos are shining like a diamond.
J Balvin
In life, you always have to keep fighting. It's not easy.
J Balvin
In 2017, it's discouraging that it seems like we're going backward. And that's not just because of Trump; that's because we, as humans, condone discrimination; it's a human issue. It's part of something bigger.
J Balvin
The important thing is that I'm clear about the love and respect that I got for Rihanna.
J Balvin
I respect the ones who make it and leave their home base, but I'm good in Colombia.
J Balvin
Basically, I just want to talk about love and how it can overcome boundaries. I want to discuss those more universal beliefs, not more politicized ideas.
J Balvin
As Latinos, we are many, and our geography is gigantic.
J Balvin
Mexico is a Latin powerhouse. And Mexicans, they're known as hard workers. Here in the U.S., not everybody wants to do those kinds of jobs. I've lived. I know what it feels like and what they go through and how families suffer.
J Balvin
I want to invite the mainstream into my world and to my sound and to what I'm doing. And I want mainstream artists to respect me and accept Latino artists as equals without us having to sing in English. I want them to know that I can compete globally, with whomever, in Spanish.
J Balvin
I'd want to start being a creative director of a specific line, like Adidas, for example. If they called me up to collaborate on something, I would do it.
J Balvin
I'm gonna be real everywhere I go, but I'm with my people, I'm connected to my roots - I'm in my country! I don't need to live somewhere else.
J Balvin
I don't know. I respect Kanye, but when it comes to Trump, I'm not into that, man.
J Balvin
I want to take it really far in Spanish; even non-Spanish speakers listen to my music across the world. Even though they don't know what I'm saying, they really feel it. We want to take it to another level and keep building our name. We want to take it really far just in Spanish.
J Balvin
Pitbull has always been great - he represents Latinos.
J Balvin
Every performance has provided a learning experience, and as we go, we keep fine-tuning the shows. If we decide to do a tour, we rehearse until we perfect. One thing that I do prior to every show is that we huddle the band and pray. We thank more than we ask.
J Balvin
I've always loved music since I was a little kid.
J Balvin
When I was, like, 12, I remember grabbing a mic, pretending it was a guitar, and performing in front of my friends. I didn't know at the time I wanted to be an artist.
J Balvin
I want to inspire people to follow their own dream, not what the world wants for them.
J Balvin
'Donde Estaras,' it is like a classic reggaeton, and we just added some Southern spice to bring it to 2018. But I wanted to go back to the roots of reggaeton, that type of reggaeton that makes you just feel good. You don't know what we are saying but that OK because 'Donde Estas' is where are you at but 'Donde Estaras' is where are you going to be.
J Balvin
Kanye and Pharrell are in fashion. Why not J Balvin?
J Balvin
I love Bad Bunny. He's changing the game. I think he's doing something very important with his success.
J Balvin
Who would have thought that somebody Latino was going to be singing with Beyonce at Coachella? Years ago? Nobody. But I did believe in me. So, that's what I want to do: keep inspiring people as much as possible.
J Balvin
We proved to the world that a completely Spanish song can take over the world.
J Balvin
There's always going to be somebody that don't like you. It's life.
J Balvin
To be a legend, we have to make a lot of right moves and great music.
J Balvin
I love Rihanna, but I'm not gonna marry Rihanna.
J Balvin
I want mainstream artists to accept Latino artists as equals without us having to sing in English.
J Balvin
I want to make music for everybody.
J Balvin
I don't have to work with superstars - I want to work with cool artists that make super music.
J Balvin
Dreams are the ones that really keep me moving all the time. That's what drives me.
J Balvin
I just work with people that I love and respect, that inspire me to be a better person, a better artist.
J Balvin
Since I was a kid, I was listening to hip-hop.
J Balvin
I'm from Colombia, and we've been through a lot of hard situations.
J Balvin
I just want people to respect what I do.
J Balvin
Behind every big artist, there's a big team.
J Balvin
I like to make super music instead of working with superstars.
J Balvin
Politics doesn't interest me in the least.
J Balvin
You can have the power of your music on your cellphone and reach millions.
J Balvin
A watch shows how you want to look - or how you want people to look at you.
J Balvin
Music is art, and making watches is art, too.
J Balvin
Let's be honest, 'Ginza' doesn't really have lyrics to speak of. It's a party track - a party for reggaetoneros to come out of the closet.
J Balvin
I am a YouTube artist.
J Balvin
I love the vibe of Las Vegas.
J Balvin
I'm honored and thankful to be partnering with the prestigious CFDA as one of the men's wear ambassadors for fashion week. My interest in fashion is only matched by my love for music, and I'm blessed to be given an opportunity to learn about some of my favorite designers from a firsthand look at their latest collections.
J Balvin
I think music is to have fun. It's for people to have a good time with.
J Balvin
We are making music for the human race, and even beings from other galaxies are welcome to vibe with us.
J Balvin
I pay a lot of attention to the people I let surround me. I learn something from those people and from everyone - from other musicians, from people on the street.
J Balvin
t's always been my dream to be among the big names of Colombia.
J Balvin
I'm still in love with New York. It's like a dream: there's so much to do, so much culture.
J Balvin
The only way I'm not going to follow other people in reggaeton is if I listen to other things. I get other melodies or sounds and put them in reggaeton and make it different.
J Balvin
I like to change and switch it up. I don't want to sound like anybody else or sound the same. I always have to reinvent myself.J BalvinChange Myself Always
Winning a Grammy is always going to be good.
J Balvin
Steve Aoki is somebody I really love, and he did a remix of 'Mi Gente,' too.
J Balvin
30Part of what we did is change that misconception that reggaeton is machista and misogynist. On the contrary, women are our biggest fans, and they inspire us.
J Balvin
Mike Amiri is like my brother.
J Balvin
We want to change to point of view about Latinos in the world and Colombians. Forget about the bad past.
J Balvin
I think the universe works perfectly.
J Balvin
I think it's important to show people, especially young people, that it's okay to have a personality. And that they can express themselves however they like.
J Balvin
I obviously work really hard. But I also have the capacity to dream really big and have the discipline to materialize those dreams.
J Balvin
Reggaeton is what opened the doors for me, and I'm always grateful for that. I'll do reggaeton for life, but I want to show that I'm an artist who can do everything.
J Balvin
The more I get to know more artists, the more they inspire me.
J Balvin
I don't want to make music only for Latinos. The idea is always to make a global sound.
J Balvin
Music is one way of expressing yourself, and fashion is another.
J Balvin
I don't want nobody to ever say, 'I coulda done that beat' or 'I know where you got that from.'
J Dilla
One of my favourite Donald Byrd tracks is 'Think Twice,' and I didn't want to sample it. I've always enjoyed when other people have sampled it, so I wanted to instead of making a beat with it or something like that, or freak the beat of whatever. I wanted to just recreate it in my own way, like how I heard it.
J Dilla
No one will ever be able to come against me on the beats.
J Dilla
There'd be days when I wouldn't eat at all because I'd be in the basement working all day.
J Dilla
It's family first, and then everything else.
J Dilla
What happened was that the doctor told me that I'd ruptured my kidney from being too busy and being stressed out and not eating right.
J Dilla
Detroit is a hard city.
J Dilla
To me now, I don't really categorize music - I see music as all one.
J Hus
In year 10 or 11, I used to buy packs of doughnuts for 50p from Morrisons, and sell them for 50p each. I made loads of money. So I was a doughnut hustler!
J Hus
I was a bit of a hothead. But I've changed my ways now. My bad years were probably from 2009 to 2014.
J Hus
I don't think anyone can do what I already do. I just do it and it's unique, yeah.
J Hus
I think I make ugly sexy and attractive. If I didn't do music, the girls that like me wouldn't like me, but I think I make ugly look good.
J Hus
I think people can learn from my experiences, and I hope people can look at me and be inspired.
J Hus
The women are my biggest supporters so I have to make good music for them too. Afrobeats is also often always about sexy women; we are simply celebrating the female form.
J Hus
I feel like I'm bipolar. I have my different moods and that. That's why my music exists in so many different worlds - this moment I'm feeling all raw, this moment I'm wanting to talk to a girl, the next moment I'm wanting to talk about spirit and be deep. Then I'm back to being angry.
J Hus
I wanted to be an actor.
J Hus
I'm a Gemini, so my mood always changes - one minute I'm dance-dancey, the next I'm in the corner minding my own business
J Hus
My friends used to call me ugly. Even my mum would say it.
J Hus
I don't like to believe in star signs and all of that stuff.
J Hus
Being ugly didn't offend me. It's like: Yeah, I'm ugly. What? Make me ugly-sexy. Embrace it.
J Hus
'Cause it's jail, everyone thinks they're bad. So this one guy was like, 'What're you gonna do, 'Lean and Bop' for us?' I was cocky, I was like 'Oh yeah? It costs five racks to see me lean and bop, It costs five racks to see me lean and bop.' But deep down inside it was hurting. It's moments like that make me hate - I feel like I sold out.
J Hus
My little brother is four years old and he listens to all my music. I don't know how he finds it, but he knows how to use an iPad and he's always online. So one day my mum said: 'You know what, you have to make something for your little brother,' and that's how I made 'Lean & Bop.'
J Hus
My mum used to play afrobeats, my dad used to play Caribbean, my sisters and brothers played hip-hop.
J Hus
Jhene Aiko, I like Zara Larsson, I like working with female artists.
J Hus
People always say I'm shy! But I'm not even shy! Like, if you knew what I'm saying in my brain. I'm in my own mind a lot. Even though I'm quiet I'm thinking about a lot of things.
J Hus
I was feeling 'Lean & Bop' in the moment. It's brought me the most money. And when I'm doing shows, it goes off.
J Hus
People are always surprised when they meet me. I was in Nigeria and I went to one of the radio stations and they were like, 'Aww you look cute!' They were expecting me to look more rough, and I was like: 'Yeah, I'm polite!'
J Hus
I wanna keep rapping, I intend to. It's good to mix it up, but I'm still gonna stay true to rapping.
J Hus
I've had a million hats - snapbacks or whatever. I'm really into hats.
J Hus
I'm just gonna be more weird and unique as possible.
J Hus
I like to say there's no natural genre to my music.
J Hus
I don't like to be put into a box. I don't wanna be given a title - nothing.
J Hus
One of my biggest influences is Fela Kuti.
J Hus
I put my mum through a lot of stress; police would be coming to the house... It just seemed normal to me, to be up to no good; it's what everyone did. But then you start to see friends dying and going to prison and suddenly it's not fun anymore.
J Hus
Prison, I don't want to go back there again.
J Hus
People look at kids like us and think we have no morals because we're from 'the street.' I want to show that we do live by certain standards, that we are moral people.
J Hus
My absolute earliest influences would be people like Michael Jackson, R. Kelly, Outkast, 'Get Rich Or Die Tryin' era 50 cent.
J Hus
There isn't a Skepta song I don't know.
J Hus
Everyday I look back at my history and feel regret.
J Hus
When I was growing up in my area, the worst problem for us was we never had a purpose, I'd just be looking for stuff to do, I would be bored, that's how we would get into trouble.
J Hus
Even with me going to prison, it could have put a bad stigma on my name. But you keep going. When people see you in a low situation, when people see you fight, they respect you for it.
J Hus
I'm not really good at talking.
J Hus
It's just common sense that everyone should be listening to J Hus.
J Hus
Everyone sounds like me now. But they know who they are. It's a game changer. I started this sound, I'm the head of it. You can do it, but I'll do it better.
J Hus
Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
J Mascis
I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees.
J Mascis
I was just reading about Paul Simon in 'Uncut', and it was fascinating. I never think about him much or think about his music or anything, but it's interesting to hear his ideas on stuff.
J Mascis
When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
J Mascis
Yeah, you know, I'm always into cassette. At least they seem to be the longest-lasting medium we used to have. I don't play cassettes much anymore, but I play records all the time.
J Mascis
I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
J Mascis
Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.
J Mascis
I play a Fender Jazzmaster and three stacks and a combo, two old Marshall Plexis and a Hiwatt combo and a Hiwatt combo with Marshall cabs.
J Mascis
I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries of regular tunings.
J Mascis
You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at.
J Mascis
I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.
J Mascis
All labels are offensive in some way.
J Mascis
People have to do what they want to do.
J Mascis
It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.
J Mascis
I've never liked rehearsing too much.
J Mascis
It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess that's how I play everything: on the edge of my ability.
J Mascis
'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.
J Mascis
I think electricity will create a new world. I feel like the world will change a lot with electricity, and I wonder how it will change, it's scary, and it's going to be fun. I think there are so many things to think about when it comes to electric cars.
J-Hope
We have reached milestones that are far beyond what I expected.
J-Hope
We set out with nothing but music as our dream, but we didn't know where we were going, whether we were going uphill or downhill, or as we took a break after becoming tired, whether around the corner there was a paradise or a pitfall. That's how we started.
J-Hope
Do what you want to try doing. Take whatever you get out of it and have fun.
J-Hope
I put 'hope' in my name to be a hopeful existence in the group.
J-Hope
We are happy that we could resonate with so many people.
J-Hope
We want to keep doing our own music and show our own colors.
J-Hope
We deliver many different messages to people of our generation. I want them to get good energy by listening to BTS music.
J-Hope
The music helped me sympathize with our young generation and also empathize with them. I'd like to create and write more music that represents them.
J-Hope
We're proud that everything we do is giving off light.
J-Hope
I think I just laugh nonstop. I think my laughter naturally melts in when I want to recharge.
J-Hope
We started out because we love music and dancing.
J-Hope
When I hear the word electric, I think of Pikachu!
J-Hope
We Are Bulletproof: The Eternal' demonstrates that we will keep going despite the difficulties. It reveals our ego.
J-Hope
We will try to make the name BTS sound as cool as The Beatles.J-HopeCool Try Will
I love my life!
J-Hope
It feels as if the world has acknowledged and accepted our sincerity.
J-Hope
I don't think you should feel too pressured about a mixtape. Just do what you want to do and show the music you want to show. You're not trying to win something big with it.
J-Hope
The singing in 'Dynamite,' it wasn't easy because the song is high-pitched.
J-Hope
Louder Than Bombs' shows our inner shadows.
J-Hope
I remember being captivated by Jules Verne's 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea' when I read it as a kid.
J-Hope
I actually don't preoccupy myself with 'I'm going to do this kind of rap in this kind of genre' kind of thinking when I work.
J-Hope
If we think something is not good, we'll openly say it. If there's choreography, for example, and it feels like it's going to be too taxing on our physical resources - as I said, we're not getting any younger - we'll say so, and then we'll make those changes.
J-Hope
It's the encouragement from fans that drove us and allowed BTS to become who we are.
J-Hope
I feel we have achieved the goals that we set out to achieve.
J-Hope
I started dancing first, but felt I could also tell my story through my music.
J-Hope
It's such a great honor to be mentioned along The Beatles.
J-Hope
I felt that group vocals for 'Airplane' coming from all the BTS members who've been together through this journey would create an even more heartfelt song.
J-Hope
When I was a little boy, my wish was to be on an airplane. My wish was to get on a plane and fly to the sky.
J-Hope
When I was a little kid, I simply loved music and enjoyed expressing myself with my body.
J-Hope
My fantasy had always been making a music video and performing with music that I had created.
J-Hope
We've matured musically, as well as in the way we think. We've also developed a higher sense of responsibility. This has refined us and these developments are really being reflected in our music and our dance.
J-Hope
Everyone liked me when I went up on the stage at a talent search in elementary school, and that's when I decided to become a music artist.
J-Hope
The way I work uses a very on-the-spot flow, and I write the lyrics and the music when I feel them coming.
J-Hope
We're working out, watching Netflix and learning to play instruments. I think we're doing a lot of self-development, and also just trying to stay active.
J-Hope
I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
J. A. Jance
I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
J. A. Jance
I play golf - badly.
J. A. Jance
I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.
J. A. Konrath
A company doesn't have to compete with Amazon. A company can instead innovate in sectors Amazon doesn't presently care about.
J. A. Konrath
After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
J. A. Konrath
Time is the ultimate long tail. Even with a big wad of money up front, if something sells forever, the back end is what ultimately counts.
J. A. Konrath
I don't care what people are saying about me, good or bad, in blogs or on Twitter or in the media. There will always be people who don't like you and don't like your books. Ignore them.
J. A. Konrath
I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.
J. A. Konrath
I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.
J. A. Konrath
We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.
J. A. Konrath
Because we self-published 'Draculas,' we control the rights. Not just for now, but forever.
J. A. Konrath
Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.
J. A. Konrath
Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
J. A. Konrath
Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
J. A. Konrath
I can hire out for editing, proofreading, formatting, and cover design, and those are fixed, sunk costs. Once those are paid, I can earn 70% on a self-pubbed ebook.
J. A. Konrath
I know dozens of authors who have had a lot of books published by New York, and they won't ever take another Big 6 contract since they've gotten a taste of the freedom, control, and money self-publishing offers.
J. A. Konrath
I enjoy writing. Publishing... not so much. I've been lucky to work with some very talented people in the publishing world, and the print industry has allowed me to write full time.
J. A. Konrath
15The business model - where books can be returned, and where a 50% sell-through is considered acceptable - is archaic and wasteful. Writers get small royalties, little say in how their books are marketed and sold, and simple things like cover and title approval are unheard of unless you're a huge bestseller.
J. A. Konrath
I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
J. A. Konrath
Writers aren't in competition with one another. It isn't a zero sum game. If you have a good book, a good cover, a good product description, and a low price, you can sell well.
J. A. Konrath
When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
J. A. Konrath
E-books are preferable to paper; they can be delivered instantly. In many cases, they're cheaper; you can buy them with the press of a button.
J. A. Konrath
The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
J. A. Konrath
My grandchildren will be making money from the stories I write and sell as eBooks because they will continue to be making money.
J. A. Konrath
We each take up one virtual space per title... Virtual shelf life is forever. In a bookstore, you have anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to sell your title, and then it gets returned. This is a big waste of money, and no incentive at all for the bookseller to move the book.
J. A. Konrath
It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
J. A. Konrath
I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
J. A. Konrath
Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.
J. A. Konrath
No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.
J. A. Konrath
Amazon is not a monopoly or a monopsony, and even if it were, that by itself isn't illegal.
J. A. Konrath
My Kindle readers have been incredibly faithful fans.
J. A. Konrath
I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.
J. A. Konrath
If a traditional publisher offered me a quarter of a million dollars for a novel, I'd consider it. But anything less than that, I'm sure I can do better on my own.
J. A. Konrath
I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
J. Anthony Lukas
The one great exception to the apathy on reunification is, naturally enough, Berlin. Encircled by the hostile Soviet Zone for ten years, at times blockaded and constantly at the Russians' mercy, Berliners are committed to this one goal with a unique urgency.
J. Anthony Lukas
With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.
J. Anthony Lukas
I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
J. Anthony Lukas
The need for a non-veteran reserve became painfully obvious in the Korean war when many of the men who were being called to serve were World War II veterans participating in Ready Reserve units.
J. Anthony Lukas
Serious drama in a significant degree began at Harvard in the 1880s. In 1881, the Cercle Francais initiated the annual French play, and shortly afterwards the German and Spanish clubs added their productions.
J. Anthony Lukas
Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.
J. August Richards
1In the 'Angel' days, all there was was a community that was like a chat room. If you were looking for feedback, you had to look for it.
J. August Richards
I absolutely love working with David Boreanaz, and Charisma Carpenter I completely adore - she teaches me to dance.
J. August Richards
Marvel makes you feel like 'Iron Man' will show up at your front door to kill you if you say the wrong thing.
J. August Richards
I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.
J. August Richards
I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.
J. August Richards
What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
J. August Richards
Once I found out that I was playing 'Deathlok,' I unearthed my old comic book collection. I was going home for Christmas, and I have a collection of thousands of comics. I was surprised to see that 90% of them were Marvel. So, I wanted to go through my collection and start there.
J. August Richards
I definitely was a big comic collector as a kid.
J. August Richards
When we wrapped 'Angel,' I definitely had a moment where I thought, 'Wow, that was the best job I'm ever gonna have.'
J. August Richards
When you're doing superhero stunts, the objective is to look as cool as humanly possible.
J. August Richards
To steal a term from one of my Twitter followers, 'Deathlok' is the 'anti-villain.' He's on the side of the bad guys, but he obviously doesn't want to be there.
J. August Richards
I went right to the 'Guide to the Marvel Universe,' which has every Marvel character from A-Z, and fortunately, I had every issue. I found 'Deathlok,' read about him there.
J. August Richards
I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.
J. August Richards
I was in fittings for the first costume even before I knew I was even going to be 'Deathlok.'
J. August Richards
Everything with Marvel is on a need-to-know basis, so I didn't officially know until the second episode I did, which I think was the 10th episode in the season. Information is carefully guarded over there. I definitely didn't know that I was 'Deathlok.'
J. August Richards
Even when I'm playing a lawyer or a doctor, I want to play a person. A human being.
J. August Richards
Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!
J. August Richards
I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
J. August Richards
I believe that I'm an actor to this day because of 'Star Wars.' I saw 'Star Wars' as a child, and I was completely enamored by it.
J. August Richards
I thought, 'Oh, this is great,' because maybe someone who does look like me will watch 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and realize that they can be an actor if they want to be, or they can be a superhero. They can have a hero that looks like them as well.
J. August Richards
The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like Comic-Con - and there are always a lot of attendants of color. And I think some people believe that black people or people of color are not into science fiction or hero shows or genre shows.
J. August Richards
Oddly enough, I've always really loved Nightcrawler. You know who else they didn't use enough was Phoenix. I just thought her story line was so tragic. I was just really drawn to that character as well.
J. August Richards
As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.
J. August Richards
I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.
J. August Richards
I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!
J. August Richards
I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.
J. August Richards
I really enjoy working in genre series, because you really have to create the characters.
J. August Richards
I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'
J. August Richards
Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
J. August Richards
Their crew for 'Arrow' is just one of the most wonderful crews that I've worked with. I know that actors say that all the time, and it sounds like trash coming out of my own mouth, but it's so true.
J. August Richards
The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.
J. August Richards
The interesting thing for me is, if I met Michael Peterson in person, I'd want him to let himself off the hook just a little bit.
J. August Richards
Anyone who's trying to be there for their family and trying to take care of their children is a hero to me.
J. August Richards
Everything I've ever learned about acting - and I went to theater school - was about playing what the character wants and throwing yourself fully into going after what the character wants.
J. August Richards
I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
J. August Richards
I feel that, as an actor, you're constantly working to become better, which I love, but with painting, I can fail on my own terms. There's a freedom in that, so that's why I love to paint.
J. August Richards
My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.
J. August Richards
Grinding is a mindset and a willingness and commitment to work at it.
J. B. Bickerstaff
When you want to win, and you want to go to work every day, you want to work with high character people; you want to work with classy people.
J. B. Bickerstaff
If you look at the teams that mix and match their starting lineup a great deal, that sort of inconsistency frequently leads to inconsistency in performance.
J. B. Bickerstaff
My brother and I used to laugh and say, 'Normal kids went to day care, and we went to the gym.'
J. B. Bickerstaff
It's always fun when you get to go somewhere new and you get to meet new people and get new experiences.J. B. BickerstaffAlways New People
Nothing is ever perfect in the NBA.
J. B. Bickerstaff
Any good defensive team has a strong anchor, because he cleans up mistakes.
J. B. Bickerstaff
Whenever someone great passes, all of us have a loss.
J. B. Bickerstaff
It's not the way you want to get a job, to see someone you admire and look up to and learned so much from get fired.
J. B. Bickerstaff
Small ball, spacing, shooting 3s, is something that everybody's trying to do.
J. B. Bickerstaff
My dad always took over teams, except for Washington, that were rebuilding, and you hear the taunting, the jokes, negative, awful things about the person you love. That hardens you at a young age.
J. B. Bickerstaff
Let's face it, first-time assistant coaches normally don't walk into jobs with two perennial All-Stars on a team that just got bounced in the Western finals. Normally, they get a job in the middle of a year, playing for lottery balls.
J. B. Bickerstaff
You don't win without talent, but your talent has to have purpose.
J. B. Bickerstaff
I'm always for constructive conversation, meaningful conversation, not just words, but conversation.J. B. BickerstaffAlways Conversation Words
I'm a big believer in communication.
J. B. Bickerstaff
Conflict resolution, all those things, are important. When you're in a group environment, you have to have those. If you don't, things fester. Have the conversation. Resolve it. Move forward.
J. B. Bickerstaff
As a coach, the more experience you have, the more you're around players, it helps so you see how guys learn, ways that are effective to reach different people. You see the aftermath of all the things that happened; you don't just see what happens at the game, you see what happens after the game, the followthrough, and those types of things.
J. B. Bickerstaff
No matter what your job is, you know that you need to have a routine, that you need to be disciplined, you need to work.
J. B. Bickerstaff
I watch a ton of movies. Going way back, I like 'The Godfather.' 'The Matrix' was one of my favorites - the first one; they got a little carried away after the first one. Those are two that stand out.
J. B. Bickerstaff
Every day, you learn something. That's the same as assistant coach and the same as a head coach. You should continue to learn. You watch so much basketball, you should see something somewhere from somebody different all the time.
J. B. Bickerstaff
I hope I continue to learn. If I don't, then I know everything.
J. B. Bickerstaff
You go with what you got. That's the thing about having a system, then you plug guys into your system.
J. B. Bickerstaff
Some guys, when they play with other elite players, they end up being too unselfish; or guys who are used to having the ball in their hands all the time, now they're not as aggressive or as instinctive because they're thinking too much out there.
J. B. Bickerstaff
During the regular season, you don't have the sort of time you do in the playoffs to prepare for people, so you've got to go to your strengths.
J. B. Bickerstaff
Through the regular season, if you get really good at what you do, teams will have a hard time adjusting to you.
J. B. Bickerstaff
A lot of times, people think of selfish, and they think of offense, but you can be selfish on the defensive end of the floor, too. If you don't uphold your end of our schemes and your responsibilities within those schemes, then you're being just as selfish.
J. B. Bickerstaff
It's hard to argue with a coach who says, 'I just want you to work.' What can you say to that without making a fool of yourself?
J. B. Bickerstaff
You can have old guys who aren't willing to be coached just like you can have young guys who aren't willing to be coached.
J. B. Bickerstaff
My dad traveled so much for work that, when he was home, we always wanted to spend as much time with him as we could, so going to practices and doing stuff like that with him took precedence over Saturday morning cartoons. We'd go to practice with my dad just so we could be a part of it.
J. B. Bickerstaff
As an assistant coach, the wins and losses don't tally up on your record, so you don't necessarily have that to fall back on, so you have to find smaller games within the bigger picture to play in order to get your victories.
J. B. Bickerstaff
We're all smart enough to figure out Xs and Os - it's basketball, it's not advanced calculus. But the most important thing is can you get your message across to players? Do they believe in you, and do they want to compete for you?
J. B. Bickerstaff
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