Ian Anderson Quotes

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

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Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Jim McKay

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The reason Jennifer Lawrence is allowed to be a body-positive role model to young girls and 'chubby' women is because she is representative of conventional beauty.

Jennifer Armintrout

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The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.

Anna Quindlen

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It turns out that a Nobel is also followed by other recognitions, and perhaps the most unexpected of these is that the Japan Karate Association in Tokyo has now made me an honorary 7th-degree black belt, something that, given my athletic abilities, is even more unimaginable than being an Economic Sciences Laureate.

Alvin E. Roth

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John Waters is a genius.

Stephen Malkmus

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Through my writing, I have made new friends and continued to learn about this world of ours in all its wonder, with all its challenges.

Sonia Levitin

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I lump Canada and the States together. I like good old North American boys.

Tricia Helfer

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To me, providing a new economic way forward is of utmost urgency and will be of foremost importance for the new DPP administration if I am elected.

Tsai Ing-wen

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I delight in offending people. I think the grievance brigade, victimhood, the idea that hurt feelings are some kind of special currency - I think that needs to come to an end.

Milo Yiannopoulos

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Death is not my best subject.

Judd Nelson

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The good thing about being an actor, and the gift of being an actor, is that you are beautifully forced to see the world with different eyes.

Javier Bardem

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The allegations against Roy Moore are very serious. In the state of Missouri, they are criminal - these are criminal allegations.

Josh Hawley

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