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In them days, coming out of Manchester, being a singer was seen as effeminate, wasn't it?


Ian Brown

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AL JARREAU It's awesome. I've dreamt of it since missing out in Manchester.
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HENRY ROLLINS It may change in the coming days. As of today, that hasn't happened.
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DAVE MASON I think it just showed homosexuals that being bold, being brave, coming out, you know, was not going...
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CILLA CALDERON I opened myself to your silences.
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BERTIE AHERN Of course I was worried about them on the counter-attack, Manchester United have good players,
MICK MCCARTHY That's a first, ... I've never seen a hole in the ground where [hornets] came firing out. You could ...
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EDDY ARNOLD I had convinced my father to let me pursue this career, and I passionately wanted it. And here was t...
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BILL BRIST It's awesome. I've dreamt of it since Manchester last time when I missed out.
LIZ YELLING I can only be me. I have a hard time being a chameleon as a singer.
CHRIS STAPLETON This was one of her first experiences coming out and playing and being a part of the varsity team.
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ANDREW NORWOOD The kids are coming out in droves. We haven't seen that here in years.
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IAN BROWN Sure, of course. My boys know I'm famous. They see me on the TV but they'd rather watch 'The Simpson...
IAN BROWN The patients are very disappointed with the outcome this morning.
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IAN FRAZIER Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
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IAN MCSHANE Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.
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IAN SOMERHALDER I've sorta learned that I'm so tired of taking myself so seriously. It's so great to sho...
IAN SOMERHALDER A lot of things that happen in the world make me a bit crazy.
IAN SOMERHALDER You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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IAN SOMERHALDER I always try to be reasonable and effective.
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IAN RUSH I was so shy when I was younger. When I first went to Liverpool I didn't say a word for a year.
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IAN RUSH I love horse racing, I play golf, and I love travelling.
IAN RUSH Mainly it's the parents who remember me. But the kids today, what they do is go and Google you. ...
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IAN RUSH I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.
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IAN MCSHANE People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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IAN MCKELLEN You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'...
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IAN MCKELLEN Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I...
IAN MCKELLEN I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separa...
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IAN MCKELLEN If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Adm...
IAN MCKELLEN I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusi...
IAN MCKELLEN Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shou...
IAN MCKELLEN It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and re...
IAN MCKELLEN I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of puttin...
IAN MCKELLEN There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender ov...
IAN MCKELLEN You mustn't upstage the bride.
IAN MCKELLEN What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in oth...
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 m...
IAN MCKELLEN I like sleeping a lot.
IAN MCKELLEN Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, some...
IAN MCKELLEN My friends are my family.
IAN MCKELLEN I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat ...
IAN MCKELLEN Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to li...
IAN MCKELLEN I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction....
IAN MCKELLEN I usually eat in my friend Tom Corcoran's place - the Siam Thai in Monkstown. I go there for a v...
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 doin...
IAN MCKEEVER I don't hold grudges.
IAN MCEWAN The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel r...
IAN MCEWAN The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literatu...
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&...
IAN MCEWAN I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them....
IAN MCEWAN Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and the...
IAN MCEWAN It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're...
IAN MCEWAN Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
IAN MCEWAN Not being boring is quite a challenge.
IAN MCEWAN One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
IAN MCEWAN I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent...
IAN MCEWAN I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
IAN MCEWAN What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and...
IAN MCEWAN I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
IAN MCEWAN You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
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IAN MCEWAN One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any fra...
IAN MCEWAN True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
IAN MCEWAN But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the...
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IAN MCDIARMID I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite g...
IAN MCDIARMID I'm the blackest villain of all time.
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IAN MCDIARMID If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, an...
IAN MCDIARMID That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
IAN MCDIARMID There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne...
IAN MCDIARMID To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back ...
IAN MCDIARMID When George asked me to be the prequels, it was the same kind of meeting - it was very short and to ...
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 Consistency is very important when you're making films.
IAN MCDIARMID It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it...
IAN MCDIARMID Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and ...
IAN MACKAYE At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hug...
IAN MACKAYE I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent.
IAN MACKAYE Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about...
IAN MACKAYE Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and crea...
IAN MACKAYE I consider the guitar a tool for the most part. I do pick up the acoustic now and then, I certainly ...
IAN MACKAYE I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything t...
IAN MACKAYE I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a ...
IAN MACKAYE I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.
IAN MACKAYE What I find interesting as a 40-year-old is the idea of trying to be a part of a pronounced, continu...
IAN MACKAYE I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I ...
IAN MACKAYE I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend ...
IAN MACKAYE I just have work to do; I just do it.
IAN MACKAYE The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out....
IAN MACKAYE To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
IAN MACKAYE Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something...
IAN MACKAYE An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means yo...
IAN MACKAYE What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That ...
IAN JACKSON I think PSP is going to be the most successful handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do i...
IAN JACKSON I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going t...
IAN JACKSON If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certa...
IAN JACKSON