Ian Stirton quote: "The commission receives many complaints and has limited resources. They must pick cases they'll go forward with. Sometimes they'll take no action or decide not to pursue a case."

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IAN STIRTON

Any ongoing complaint is confidential until the commission closes the case or takes final action. So...
IAN STIRTON

A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember s...
IAN FRAZIER

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
IAN FLEMING

There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
IAN WILLIAMS

Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
IAN MCSHANE

Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.
IAN DUNBAR

Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.
JANIS IAN

I'm still swimming.
IAN THORPE

For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have do...
IAN THORPE

I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on sw...
IAN THORPE

Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an ...
IAN SOMERHALDER

I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
IAN SOMERHALDER

You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an act...
IAN SOMERHALDER

The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide sprea...
IAN SOMERHALDER

I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be...
IAN SOMERHALDER

Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their commun...
IAN SOMERHALDER

They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or...
IAN SOMERHALDER

Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat ...
IAN SOMERHALDER

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolut...
IAN SOMERHALDER

Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.
IAN SOMERHALDER

I don't care how hot a girl is - if she doesn't like animals, it would be a major, major pro...
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.
IAN SOMERHALDER

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
IAN SOMERHALDER

I always try to be reasonable and effective.
IAN SMITH

Every human being makes mistakes.
IAN SMITH

Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't wan...
IAN SMITH

Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principle...
IAN SMITH

Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.
IAN SCHRAGER

My best vacation was renting a boat and motoring along the Adriatic, going along the Croatian coast,...
IAN SCHRAGER

I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.
IAN SCHRAGER

The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents'...
IAN SCHRAGER

I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed,...
IAN SCHRAGER

Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class.
IAN SCHRAGER

I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.
IAN SCHRAGER

Good design is good business.
IAN SCHRAGER

People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's ...
IAN RUSH

I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and there's the Welsh connection.
IAN RUSH

I just wanted to play as long as I could. When you stop playing, you're not going to get it back...
IAN RUSH

I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to...
IAN RUSH

I've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I...
IAN RUSH

The only thing I can cook is Welsh rarebit.
IAN RUSH

There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football clu...
IAN RUSH

This is why cup finals are so special because on the day anyone can beat anyone. That's what it&...
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.
IAN RUSH

You can enjoy yourself, but you need to look after yourself as well.
IAN RUSH

It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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. ...
IAN RUSH

Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.
IAN RUSH

I've got a place in Portugal, which I like very much, but I've just been working in Malaysia...
IAN RUSH

I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.
IAN RUSH

In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and ot...
IAN RUSH

You've got to have a dream... if you don't have any big dreams, nothing happens.
IAN RUSH

I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm ...
IAN RANKIN

A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up ...
IAN RANKIN

Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
IAN RANKIN

No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it'...
IAN RANKIN

My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or s...
IAN RANKIN

You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're ...
IAN RANKIN

I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and...
IAN RANKIN

I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. I...
IAN RANKIN

The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon yo...
IAN RANKIN

I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think...
IAN RANKIN

I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, i...
IAN RANKIN

At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ide...
IAN RANKIN

I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in...
IAN RANKIN

I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me...
IAN MILLAR

It's always a thrill to wear the flag and ride for Canada in any competition, but especially the...
IAN MILLAR

I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critic...
IAN MILLAR

I work out every morning for an hour while in front of the news channel or business channels, then I...
IAN MILLAR

When we train a horse to do a certain job, we're training the horse to be like a soldier, and ye...
IAN MILLAR

The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, 'Come on, let's go,' I absolutely believe th...
IAN MILLAR

Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and...
IAN MILLAR

If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.
IAN MILLAR

I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent m...
IAN MCSHANE

Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for...
IAN MCSHANE

Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
IAN MCSHANE

People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
IAN MCSHANE

Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
IAN MCSHANE

My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.'
IAN MCSHANE

The bad boys get all the best lines.
IAN MCSHANE

When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge y...
IAN MCSHANE

Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.
IAN MCSHANE

I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
IAN MCSHANE

Acting's boring.
IAN MCSHANE

I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill g...
IAN MCSHANE

I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
IAN MCSHANE

My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for tw...
IAN MCSHANE

Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.
IAN MCSHANE

If I'd had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, 'You can either be a footba...
IAN MCSHANE

You set paths for yourself, but as you get older, things change.
IAN MCSHANE

There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones.
IAN MCSHANE

You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
IAN MCSHANE

When you're doing a medieval show like 'Pillars,' it starts off a bit like a school play...
IAN MCSHANE

I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to ...
IAN MCSHANE

What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.
IAN MCSHANE

My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football...
IAN MCSHANE

It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
IAN MCLAGAN

I only seem to date younger women.
IAN MCLAGAN

The Small Faces are thought to be a one-hit wonder in America because we only had 'Itchycoo Park...
IAN MCLAGAN

The Small Faces was such a different band than the Faces. I know three of us are the same, but when ...
IAN MCLAGAN

When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm...
IAN MCLAGAN

Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; tha...
IAN MCLAGAN

We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
IAN MCLAGAN

I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and...
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

You don't stop thinking about women just because your wife dies. It's terrible, but you know...
IAN MCLAGAN

I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis...
IAN MCLAGAN

Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth...
IAN MCKELLEN

You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'...
IAN MCKELLEN

What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you...
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...
IAN MCKELLEN

I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of the...
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.
IAN MCEWAN

I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don&#...
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...
IAN MCDIARMID

For me it's even more interesting, because my character comes out of the shadow. It's a chan...
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.
IAN MCDIARMID

The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen pl...
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

I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general ...
IAN JACKSON

We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you...
IAN JACKSON

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowher...
IAN HUNTER

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.
IAN HUNTER

It was a labor of love and they did really well.
IAN HUNTER

Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.
IAN HUNTER

Tell the truth.
IAN HUNTER

If everyone's ready for a shot to start, except for one actor who's intent on getting to the...
IAN HOLM

'Whatever it takes' is my opinion of method acting and, indeed, any other kind of acting. Lo...
IAN HOLM

I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo - it's hardly ever addressed ...
IAN HOLM

Scarlett Johansson was wonderful in 'Lost in Translation,' and then, seemingly within a coup...
IAN HOLM

All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I ...
IAN HOLM

As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread ...
IAN HOLM

The commission receives many complaints and has limited resources. They must pick cases they'll go forward with. Sometimes they'll take no action or decide not to pursue a case.

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The commission receives many complaints and has limited resources. They must pick cases they'll go forward with. Sometimes they'll take no action or decide not to pursue a case.

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