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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
Work
You
Somebody
Way
Okay
System
District
He
Like
Know
Knows
Governor
Human
Patronage
Connection
Things
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 Frazier
Me
Matter
Remove
Tree
Other
Side
Chaos
Scale
Bag
Like
How
Effective
End
Ironic
Flag
May
In The End
Even
Serious
Capturing
Larger
Larger Scale
Writing 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
Funny
Me
You
Writing
Wait
Humor
Else
Say
Someone
Something
More
Like
Piece
Does
Watch
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
Service
Good
Me
You
Quality
Hate
Has-Been
Seems
Generously
Demanded
Like
Protocol
Been
America
Expected
Quite
Tip
Being
Where
Regardless
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
Love
Time
Me
Old
Solos
Give
Give Me
Drink
Days
Like
Because
Go
Lot
Old Days
Pub
Them
Used
Extended
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
Life
You
Group
Monumental
Musician
Criticize
Life Goes On
Jon
Never
Part
Like
Lord
Goes
Richie
Played
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
Music
Dignity
Think
Through
Like
Were
Found
Zeppelin
Playing
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 Finlay
Garden
Sense
Think
Difficulty
Other
Would
Had
Like
Perhaps
Traditional
Traditional Sense
Times
Modern
Little
Gardens
If someone was like, 'Describe yourself in one word,' I would never say, 'Handsome.'
Ian Harding
Yourself
Word
Say
Would
One Word
Someone
Never
Like
Handsome
Describe
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
Time
Virginia
Kid
Rural
Area
Parks
Between
Like
Felt
Were
Lot
Up
Very
Forests
Grew
Grey
Which
Suburban
Lucky
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
Work
Good
Me
Old
Will
Made
Good Work
Too
Enough
Philosophy
Way
Someone
Never
Like
Employ
Mate
Sailed
Just
Famous
Boat
Now
That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
Ian Hart
You
Better
Films
Everyone
Neil
About
Jordan
Like
Than
Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
Ian Hart
You
Kid
Put
Like
Well
Wizard
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
Good
People
Amazing
Old
Films
Incredibly
Tell
Telly
About
Like
Well
Because
Making
Stories
Old People
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
Today
Best
Good
Racism
People
Unfair
Nationalism
Group
Others
Say
States
Arab
Out
Good Thing
Idea
Like
Also
Israel
Decide
Mean
Preferences
Used
Many
Thing
Fundamentally
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
Money
Unhappy
Mind
Whatever
Our
Collecting
Thousand
Would
Would-Be
About
Someone
Records
Songs
Like
Obviously
Make
Yeah
Trading
Sell
Selling
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
Good
You
Writing
Pleasing
Bit
See
Some
Beach
Something
Atonement
Given
Point
Dirty
Like
Involved
How
Test
Historical
Very
Get
Hands
After
Which
Your
Now
Plausible
Things
Here
I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
Ian Mckellen
Characters
Rather
Like
Imposing
Famous
Fortunate
Two
I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
Ian Mckellen
Like
Mistaken
Another
Wizard
Dumbledore
Very
Get
Often
Much
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
Life
You
People
My Life
Politicians
Tremendous
Spent
Admire
Laurence
Laurence Olivier
Admiring
Some
Rather
Like
Also
Been
End
Up
Very
Flattering
Them
Much
Who
Many
Company
Including
Actor
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
Time
First
Every
Every Time
Once
Invariably
Something
Only
Costume
Putting
Like
First Time
Makeup
Did
Same
Established
Order
Theater
Little
Even
Round
Routines
Chance
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
Age
People
World
Long
Own
Changing
Our
Worse
Though
About
My Own
Long Periods
Like
Talk
Periods
Because
How
Being
Really
Even
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
Friendship
You
People
Other
Cares
Everybody
Broadway
Atmosphere
About
Opening
Like
Particularly
Knows
Real
Camaraderie
Shows
Village
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
Government
Gay
You
Change
Respect
Rights
People
Nothing
Worldwide
Married
Financially
Would
Cost
Like
Course
Australia
Australian
Friends
Families
Establishing
Gain
Us
Therefore
Whole
Lives
The press like to talk to actors. They mustn't be surprised when actors talk back to them.
Ian Mckellen
Back
Press
Like
Talk
Surprised
Them
Actor
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
You
Living
Think
Would
One Thing
Could
Like
Make
Wage
Exist
Huge
Repertory
Huge Difference
Get
Currently
Difference
The One Thing
Ask
Paid
Actor
Thing
Living Wage
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