It's harder to take politics seriously, to understand the issues, than it is to drown it all in a sea of scorn. And while the world cries out for greater analysis and insight, we are distracted by bread and circuses, aka the 'Great British Bake-Off' and 'Tumble.' We should rediscover our tradition of satire. Of speaking truth unto power.
‐‐ Rory Bremner
It's harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.
‐‐ Michael Haneke
It's hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?
‐‐ Nigel Farage
It's hardly a secret that I'm skeptical of declarations that the aliens are out and about on our planet. Still, I try to answer every one of these mails and phone calls because, after all, it's not a violation of physics to travel from one star system to another.
‐‐ Seth Shostak
It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
‐‐ Olafur Eliasson
It's hardly news that the Obama administration is intensely and, in many respects, unprecedentedly hostile toward the news-gathering process.
‐‐ Glenn Greenwald
It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy.
‐‐ Rebecca Solnit
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.
‐‐ Craig Bruce
It's head and heart. I like to feed both. I always wanted to be an actor. But the cultural-intellectual side of things has always excited me. I wouldn't want to let it go.
‐‐ Dan Stevens
It's healthier if you kind of just walk away from things and not really care about what happens.
‐‐ Charlie Tahan
It's healthy to have interests besides books.
‐‐ Patrick deWitt
It's healthy to have older friends. You go, 'Look, I'm younger than them!' That's always the nice thing, if you can be the youngest one in the room at times. Like if you're always the oldest one in the room, you'll start to feel like the oldest person in the world. So get older friends, because they're cool. Get cool older friends.
‐‐ Paul Feig
It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.
‐‐ Mahesh Babu
It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason.
‐‐ Caroline Dhavernas
It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.
‐‐ Moby
It's heartbreaking to watch people working against themselves.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem
It's heartbreaking when you hear a kid buying a ticket for... I don't know, whatever movie you're up against. And you see them sneaking into your film. It's just heartbreaking. But in the spirit of full disclosure, that is what I did as an 11-year-old sneaking into 'Stripes.'
‐‐ Todd Phillips
It's heartening when people hear for the first time that their vote really matters.
‐‐ Hill Harper
It's heavy, but I am able to carry it. Why? Because I'm an African woman. An African woman carries heavy loads anyway. That's how we are trained; we are brought up that nothing is unbearable. I use that now, positively. I use that now to have the thick skin that I have, and not fear, and move forward, and push; and push forward.
‐‐ Joyce Banda
It's hell with that big beard and stuff. That's the one bit I don't like. Either you take out at lunch or you don't eat. So I opted not to eat, 'cause having to put it on twice is horrific.
‐‐ Robbie Coltrane
It's hella crazy being included in the music for the 'Ninja Turtles' movie.
‐‐ Ty Dolla Sign
It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.
‐‐ Erin Morgenstern
It's helpful to have a handbag that's a bit crazy, or shoes that have kiwis on them or something, because it distracts.
‐‐ Maisie Williams
It's her first grandchild, so she's really, really, really excited. I guess my mom is a little more stressed out than me.
‐‐ Brandy Norwood
It's heretical, I know, but I've never really been able to get on with Agatha Christie. She is, of course, a giant of the genre, but I never feel that she cared a great deal about the characters. Consequently, neither do I.
‐‐ Mark Billingham
It's high time for a fresh European alternative to enter the market, taking the existing Internet behemoths head on. What the world needs now is a cloud storage service that is not subject to uncontrolled access by intelligence agencies.
‐‐ Mikko Hypponen
It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
‐‐ Camille Paglia
It's highly dishonorable to ever quit a production. I never have done it, and I can't imagine ever doing it. However, I have been in productions before where, on the first in the read-through, you feel that someone is in trouble, and indeed, actors have been let go shortly after read-throughs. I've seen that happen before.
‐‐ Denis O'Hare
It's hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You speak so well!' I'm like, 'What do you mean? Do you understand that's an insult?
‐‐ Jay-Z
It's hilarious, because my guitar has what's known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the whammy bar is probably the most alien thing on my guitar that could possibly relate to a classical guitar.
‐‐ Steve Vai
It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.
‐‐ Adam Mansbach
It's honestly every time that I'm doing something, and every time I visit a station and hear my song on the radio and people buying my stuff, I'm like 'Are you kidding me? This is insane!'
‐‐ Jana Kramer
It's honestly true that money means nothing to me.
‐‐ Lady Gaga
It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.
‐‐ Bruno Tonioli
It's horrible to get a cameraphone shoved in your face every time you walk out the door.
‐‐ John Simm
It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were experimenting on our veterans with mustard gas. So there is no security question. It can't possibly be the reason.
‐‐ Dwight Schultz
It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.
‐‐ Miuccia Prada
It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories; anything that excites us we want to be a part of. Science fiction is fun, too!
‐‐ Timothy Dalton
It's hot as hell as can be.
‐‐ Eugene Ormandy
It's how I express myself - through storytelling and characters. They often reveal very intimate, vulnerable sides of myself.
‐‐ Alexia Fast
It's how the '70s were for movies, the 2000s are for TV. I think it's a phenomenal time for TV and to be involved in it.
‐‐ Natascha McElhone
It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
‐‐ Charlotte Whitton
It's how you look at beauty. Is it only an outward appearance with hair and makeup and a hot body, or is it something deeper than that?
‐‐ Hilary Swank
It's how you prioritize in life.
‐‐ Ruth Wilson
It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
‐‐ Maisie Williams
It's huge. You win the first game of the series, you want to win the series.
‐‐ Joe Torre
It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.
‐‐ John Baldessari
It's human nature that if you get 20 positive comments and one negative one, you're going to focus on the negative. We all do that. It can be something that drags you down. It's easy to get bogged down with it, but I try to concentrate on the good things.
‐‐ Bindi Irwin
It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small - a locked room-style story.
‐‐ N. K. Jemisin