We're sure that they'll come to a satisfactory arrangement.
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CARL SANDBURG All three were highly supportive of wind power and are interested in reaching an economically satisf...
KAVITA HARDY A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be ca...
JAMES LARKIN We were trying to make sure the arrangement was good, because the song has a very dynamic and sweepi...
BUTCH VIG It was intense at the start. We wanted to make sure that the events of last week were not forgotten,...
KWAME HARRIS
It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies...
MARK TWAIN
There are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.
THOMAS A. EDISON We're still hopeful that we can come to an alternative arrangement without the property sale.
GAIL MYERS When I saw Burke come in, I definitely felt like things were (about) to turn around for me a little ...
EDDY CURRY We've come to realize that the current arrangement may not be financially viable over the long term.
DON LINDBURG I'm not going to apologize for setting a high standard, ... The results were not satisfactory.
ALEXI LALAS Erik and Drew are starting to see that they can run with some of the better runners in these early r...
BILL BRIST The health of the animal is always a question. In this case, we want to make sure that the health wo...
CHARLES CROSBY As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.
- Gen. Thomas Harrison,
GEN. THOMAS HARRISON
All action is an attempt to exchange a less satisfactory state of affairs for a more satisfactory on...
MURRAY ROTHBARD We're pleased that we were able to achieve a satisfactory resolution. The high level of service is o...
DAVID MARKOWITZ If they can come up with something that is satisfactory, we'll present it to the DOJ. If they don't,...
JOE SIMS Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some pr...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER Our congressman, Bill Thomas, certainly had an impact. That certainly could offset all of the other ...
PHIL ARNOLD It seems that today we reached a satisfactory conclusion.
KYPROS CHRYSOSTOMIDES Ian lives five minutes away from me, ... We always get together and have dinner. Ian is like a broth...
BRIAN GREEN Ian lives five minutes away from me, ... We always get together and have dinner. Ian is like a broth...
BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN Ian was the kind of smart that makes your straight A student look like she’d drown in a wet paper ...
MATT K. TURNER Let's make an arrangement where Israelis can be sure that [Palestinians] live up to all these agreem...
ZALMAN SHOVAL
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD I didn't realise the numbers were quite that good. To beat Thomas is a great win for me and I'm deli...
DAVID HOWELL Ian
C.E. COOK It was a gutsy move to bring Thomas back with six minutes left in the game. Our press got us back in...
EVAN MASSEY How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS The Libyan president is ready to come to Indonesia and I have been asked to orally extend the arrang...
ALWI SHIHAB I think it would be barely satisfactory from the strong message I got from (Vilsack), but we're tryi...
CHARLES EDWARDS
I am thrilled to be the new team captain. I am sure that the pressures I've faced on centre court wi...
BORIS BECKER We anticipate a satisfactory resolution.
LEIGH MORRIS We were under the assumption that the district knew of our continued arrangement with the lab after ...
CARLOS RAMIREZ
The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse - that is, to grow more satisfact...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN It's always hard to see one of us go, because you know, we have such a strong bond with one another,...
DANIEL DAE KIM All parties reached a satisfactory settlement.
MICHAEL SUSSMAN John cooks, that is the arrangement, ... John's a wonderful cook.
DIANE BROWN
I send the picture in a message to Ian that says, "She's gonna have all my babies.
COLLEEN HOOVER
I held you in my hands, Wanderer, and you were beautiful.
STEPHENIE MEYER Hardware: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked.
JANIS IAN
Her name is Wanda, not it. You will not touch her. Any mark you leave on her, I will double on your ...
STEPHENIE MEYER
I say, look at the melons on that lass,” Ian exclaimed, his gaze now on the TV. “And hung like a...
JEANIENE FROST
Your mum pounced on her and started sucking away. Would’ve been arousing if not for all the scream...
JEANIENE FROST
Christ girl, Ι wasn't even going to bite you. Well, not the way you're thinking."
"I'm flatte...
JEANIENE FROST It was a little problematic for us, because we are not a used to playing together. There were some g...
KLAUS AUGENTHALER
We increased her (painkiller) dosages and did not get any satisfactory response. We concluded that t...
JOHN BERRY I told Ian when he left last summer that he had to come back ready to be the centerpiece of our offe...
BRAD SODERBERG When a man is out of the game, he must restore his health without any rush, return to satisfactory c...
ALEXANDER LEBED
Ian didn't come. He just sat here with you--he said he didn't care what you looked like. He wouldn't...
STEPHENIE MEYER They've got a nice arrangement.
MIKE WILTON Thomas and Juan were already leaders and we also get Trevor back.
ADAM SHILLING They had been with their families from yesterday, but they were too scared to come out. They were ab...
ARJUNAN ETHIRVEERASINGAM I told them in the third overtime that we were already making history, so let's make sure we come ou...
JEFF MORROW Everyone feels Frank will come back and be the Frank Thomas we've seen for many years,
ARN TELLEM We came a long way. Was it satisfactory to everyone? Probably not.
BRIGID DEVRIES We knew they were going to come in and shoot 30 threes, and we were trying to make sure they didn't ...
DAVE FOWLER
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE It's (The Cult) always been me and Ian, and it always will be. We're a little wiser, but just as pis...
BILLY DUFFY Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I ...
DAVE VAN RONK People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure ...
SHARRON ANGLE I think what Ian said has a lot of merit,
JAMES SUTHERLAND The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? ...
EDDIE TRUNK
If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. Theyll have enough to eat, a bed and ...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Thomas made birdie there and I thought, 'Here we go. It's down the stretch now'. But I've been in th...
HENNIE OTTO Slow but sure, we kept spreading it out, and we never were going to let them come back within striki...
CHAD CLUVER If you don't get satisfactory answers, don't do business with that person.
CATHERINE ENGLAND We've got an agreement with Delphi that is satisfactory. We've been trying to find a soft landing fo...
GEORGE ANTHONY QPR has not sacked Ian but we are concerned about recent performances and the effect the speculation...
GIANNI PALADINI He visualized that (Ian) would kill his sister, stab her in the back,
JOHN BRADFORD A Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD
When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or ...
GEORGE CARLIN
Ian Hislop is going to be the new Doctor Who.
PAUL MERTON not an arrangement.
DAVID HARRINGTON The energy factor will be used extensively both to illustrate the performance of the government, whi...
INNA PIDLUSKA Academy, Upper Arlington and Thomas Worthington all look really strong again, so it's going to be a ...
JANET BAIRD
The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in yo...
JOAN DIDION I lacked a bit of freshness to clock a better time. But overall, it's satisfactory.
CHRISTINE ARRON [At the same briefing Thursday at which McClellan challenged Roberts, he lit into Hearst columnist H...
SCOTT MCCLELLAN
I did get a few of his strays to come follow me. They were all out there in the rain waiting for him...
FRED COUPLES In order to grant such a shield, you have to determine who is a journalist, and there is no satisfac...
AL TOMPKINS Most Americans don't know a lot about Thomas Paine, but they carry Thomas Paine with them. Thomas Pa...
HARVEY KAYE Of all the world's enjoyments
That ever valued were,
There's none of our employments
Wit...
THOMAS DURFEE (OR D'URFEY)
And then we jerked to a stop. Jared was blocking the exit. "Have you lost your mind, Ian?" he asked,...
STEPHENIE MEYER Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.
THOMAS BROWNE SR.
As I swallowed the last bite of my bagel, my fear gave way to anger. “And just what the hell did h...
LISA SHEARIN
You do that, and I take back every nasty thing I've ever said about you."
He grinned, his mood ...
JEANIENE FROST
Charles, mate, you fret too much. I'm a grown man, I am, and I can blood my handle."
"Handle yo...
JEANIENE FROST It's not a sightseeing tour, I can tell you that. Ian Thorpe says it's the best place in the world t...
EDDIE MCGUIRE Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson hated each other so much. But that hate that they had for ea...
DAVID SCOTT But it can only be modified or amended in ways that are satisfactory to the other parties.
COURTNEY PRATT This year, we are going to more of a co-selling arrangement.
MURRAY MITCHELL It could well be that she is in the tradition of Clarence Thomas or Antonin Scalia, as the president...
JAN LARUE
We have supported the school throughout this process and are pleased that a satisfactory resolution ...
DAVID MITCHELL
More Ian Thomas
Under a code share relationship, it's very much a commercial relationship that allows the carriers t...
IAN THOMAS You assemble a very large site, then you put all the box stores on the outside and in the middle you...
IAN THOMAS We have always known Jack had nothing to answer for . . . we thank the jury and the acquittal has be...
IAN THOMAS This segment, which is focused on the business class and people who don't want to stop three or four...
IAN THOMAS I'm quite sure they'll achieve it.
IAN THOMAS I'm a big fan of character actors like Johnny Depp and Gary Oldman. My goal is to continue playi...
THOMAS IAN NICHOLAS Make sure it is God's trumpet you are blowing-
if it is only yours it won't wake the dead, W. IAN THOMAS To be in Christ -- that is redemption; but for Christ to be in you -- that is sanctification!
W. IAN THOMAS Coming out of the closet feels liberating because you no longer have to carry all that crap around w...
IAN THOMAS MALONE When I was doing the first 'American Pie' movie, I was just happy to have a job. We had a go...
THOMAS IAN NICHOLAS Makeup can be used to express yourself as well. Those experiences should not be limited to women. Ev...
IAN THOMAS MALONE To so many people, the Lord is in danger of being no more than a patron saint of our systematic theo...
W. IAN THOMAS Good works" are those works that have their origin in Jesus Christ--whose activity is released throu...
W. IAN THOMAS The people who claim that being transgender is a choice are right on one regard. Living freely as th...
IAN THOMAS MALONE Terms such as "man bun," "man purse," "guyliner," "meggings," and the new "romp-him" (romper) have e...
IAN THOMAS MALONE Despite their frequent cries to the contrary, politicians have rarely demonstrated an ability to wal...
IAN THOMAS MALONE If you’re in doubt as to whether or not a question is inappropriate, here’s a helpful tip. Ask y...
IAN THOMAS MALONE What is faith, if not an acceptance that there are things out there that cannot be explained?
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IAN THOMAS MALONE The conservative ideology sees LGBT rights as an affront to the traditional way of life, for some re...
IAN THOMAS MALONE Scheduling is always tough, no matter what the budget size is, and we had our own run-ins with that ...
THOMAS IAN NICHOLAS 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...
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