Iain De Caestecker quote: "My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used to go to drama classes when I was younger, and she would always take me. But when I got to an age when I decided it was what I wanted to do, when she accepted it, she had actually been the most supportive person ever."

I remember my first actor that I really, really fell in love with was Tom Hanks. I suppose when I wa...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER

When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. W...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER

Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there'...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER

Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that ...
IAIN MCGILCHRIST

We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already ha...
IAIN MCGILCHRIST

I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my inte...
IAIN MCGILCHRIST

Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world a...
IAIN MCGILCHRIST

Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what i...
IAIN MCGILCHRIST

Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal t...
IAIN MCGILCHRIST

The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaph...
IAIN MCGILCHRIST

The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Web...
IAIN MCGILCHRIST

The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transpar...
IAIN MCGILCHRIST

In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: ...
IAIN MCGILCHRIST

It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the w...
IAIN MCGILCHRIST

The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of th...
IAIN MCGILCHRIST

To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to u...
IAIN MCGILCHRIST

Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a ri...
IAIN MCGILCHRIST

The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyn...
IAIN MCGILCHRIST

The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
IAIN MCGILCHRIST

A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more...
IAIN GLEN

I don't crave Hollywood.
IAIN GLEN

I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
IAIN GLEN

I've been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel.
IAIN GLEN

I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.
IAIN GLEN

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot ...
IAIN GLEN

You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
IAIN GLEN

A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
IAIN GLEN

My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.
IAIN GLEN

The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation.
IAIN MACLEOD

He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.
IAIN PEARS

[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just,...
IAIN PEARS

But life isn't something that should be edited. Life shouldn't be cut. The only way you'll ever disc...
IAIN THOMAS

That’s what it feels like when you touch me. Like millions of tiny universes being born and then d...
IAIN THOMAS

Odd, don't you think? I have seen war, and invasions and riots. I have heard of massacres and brutal...
IAIN PEARS

Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learn...
IAIN PEARS

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buf...
IAIN GLEN

All reality is a game. Physics at its most fundamental, the very fabric of our universe, results dir...
IAIN BANKS

[Pope] Clement waved his hands in irritation as if to dismiss the very idea. "The world is crumbling...
IAIN PEARS

I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that...
IAIN SINCLAIR

She was looking for something I could never give her." Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. ...
IAIN PEARS

If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobi...
IAIN SINCLAIR

There's something very... I don't know; primitive, perhaps, about you, Gurgeh. You've never changed ...
IAIN BANKS

For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous ...
IAIN PEARS

I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney.
IAIN SINCLAIR

This is my skin. This is not your skin, yet you are still under it.
IAIN THOMAS

There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, betwee...
IAIN SINCLAIR

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journe...
IAIN SINCLAIR

Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and c...
IAIN SINCLAIR

I am delighted to have got Keith. He is a young lad who is strong and gets up and down the park from...
IAIN STEWART

Nick Kristof has waged an almost single-handed campaign against the atrocities. If I was Nick Kristo...
IAIN LEVINE

I think we kind of caught them off-guard with the first goal. We did a good job of finishing off tha...
IAIN JONES

The conversation between your fingers and someone else’s skin. This is the most important discussi...
IAIN THOMAS

The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best ...
IAIN PEARS

There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the se...
IAIN BANKS

I took all that data, fed it into a statistical model, turned the crank and out pops a prediction.
IAIN PARDOE

He's got a laceration, a very serious gash, on his thigh. We'll see how it goes but it is not a pret...
IAIN DOWIE

A hundred francs! Oh, dear me! It is worth millions of francs, my child. But my -- dealer -- here te...
IAIN PEARS

If I was to say where we were, I'd say we were at about 80-85 per cent where we can be.
IAIN DOWIE

We have to keep the crowd on their toes,
IAIN DOWIE

Marco has shown us that he is a great kid in training and I felt that it was the right time for him ...
IAIN DOWIE

If he had played in Northern Ireland (when England lost 1-0), he would have been a breath of fresh a...
IAIN DOWIE

I'm more than happy for Sven to come here,
IAIN DOWIE

I wouldn't mind one or two more and the chairman is very aware of that and we'll try and press on on...
IAIN DOWIE

My commitment is unequivocal.
IAIN DOWIE

There were plenty of fireworks on the pitch, but the only flares on display were those on Nigel's su...
IAIN DOWIE

We were magnificent for three quarters of this season. But since then these players have not been wo...
IAIN STEWART

With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, a...
IAIN SINCLAIR

He's a big Palace fan and so is his mum and I think that if I hadn't got him she would have gone ban...
IAIN DOWIE

I practically fell off my seat on the subway this morning. I could not believe it.
IAIN LEVINE

[H]e initially conceived of Olivier as a man of the greatest promise destroyed by a fatal flaw, the ...
IAIN PEARS

Caius was one of those who gloried in his ignorance, called his lack of letters purity, scorned any ...
IAIN PEARS

Olivier took a deep breath, then turned and bowed in farewell. Gersonides nodded in return, then tho...
IAIN PEARS

Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as al...
IAIN PEARS

Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- th...
IAIN PEARS

Civilization depends on continually making the effort, of never giving in. It needs to be cared for ...
IAIN PEARS

He had volunteered early, rather than waiting to be conscripted, for he felt a duty and an obligatio...
IAIN PEARS

Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.
IAIN PEARS

She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set ...
IAIN PEARS

And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship,...
IAIN PEARS

[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]....
IAIN PEARS

Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulga...
IAIN PEARS

I have brought peace to this land, and security," he began.

"And what of your soul, when ...
IAIN PEARS

Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its n...
IAIN PEARS

Politics bores you?" Bronsen said.

Julien smiled. "It does. Apologies, sir, and it is not...
IAIN PEARS

The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for on...
IAIN PEARS

This is a perfectly good picture. And if I didn't know you, I would be impressed and charmed. But I ...
IAIN PEARS

Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody; there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in i...
IAIN PEARS

Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be cor...
IAIN PEARS

When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame...
IAIN PEARS

I luv the ded, this old baster sez to me when I wiz tryin to get some innfurmashin out ov him. You f...
IAIN BANKS

If you overdosed on it, it might make you feel sick and give you a slight uplift in your libido [on ...
IAIN KIRKWOOD

I think he likes it. He fits in with our ethos. He's a good worker and is an excellent pro. Thank go...
IAIN DOWIE

Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes ...
IAIN PEARS

Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote s...
IAIN PEARS

Criminality has been covered up and vital questions remain unanswered. There's a massive mess which ...
IAIN MCKIE

If there is a blatant dive and a player is feigning injury when there is no contact, they should be ...
IAIN DOWIE

[Peterheadâ€™s title hopes were dealt a blow when they were held to a goalless draw by East Fif...
IAIN STEWART

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap abo...
IAIN BANKS

I'm too drunk to recall much of what I've said. Which, come to think of it, is probably just as well...
IAIN BANKS

Why had he done it? Why couldn't it just not have happened? Why didn't they have time-travel,...
IAIN BANKS

I did enough algebra when I was at university, so I am sick and tired of that.
IAIN DOWIE

With all due respect to everyone, there is no question that if AJ is fit, he starts, ... That is whe...
IAIN DOWIE

He did brilliantly for us in the time he was here,
IAIN DOWIE

There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.
IAIN BANKS

Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly...
IAIN BANKS

In the end, he had to admit, he didn't really understand her. He didn't understand women. He didn't ...
IAIN BANKS

The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before....
IAIN SINCLAIR

Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid."
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IAIN PEARS

The line of traffic advancing towards the rising sun looked like a procession of the returning dead....
IAIN SINCLAIR

The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have ...
IAIN BANKS

It is vital that we win. This is a chance to cut the gap between ourselves and the front two.
IAIN STEWART

You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.
IAIN GLEN

Just before the Clear Air Turbulence went back into warp and its crew sat down at the table, ...
IAIN BANKS

I like to think that somewhere out there, on a planet exactly like ours, two people exactly like you...
IAIN THOMAS

Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitte...
IAIN THOMAS

...for all its apparent speed, the ship was almost perfectly silent, and he experienced an enervatin...
IAIN BANKS

Canada is a more mature market. Here, we can be all about speed and quality, and look to differentia...
IAIN GRANT

A young person may be exposed to a loud noise and cause permanent damage, but a younger ear will com...
IAIN GRANT

Nortel's Brampton office is only a shadow of what it used to be.
IAIN GRANT

That's huge when everyone is running away from you. It's important to keep your customers happy, ......
IAIN GRANT

Nortel's Brampton office is only a shadow of what it used to be,
IAIN GRANT

The original thought was that you'd have a cell phone, then you'd put it back into a dock and have i...
IAIN GILLOTT

You open up a conventional cellular network to IP services, and the best way to describe what [it] d...
IAIN GILLOTT

70 percent of their revenues come from North America. The international stuff, while a concern, is n...
IAIN GILLOTT

There's been some question about whether or not the mobile TV market would be big or not. But the in...
IAIN GILLOTT

These findings could be the wireless service providers' worst nightmare if they indicate a shift in ...
IAIN GILLOTT

The mobile industry is scrambling to meet the demand for innovative new content applications and ser...
IAIN GILLOTT

These findings could be the wireless service providers' worst nightmare if they indicate a shift in ...
IAIN GILLOTT

The mobile industry is scrambling to meet the demand for innovative new content applications and ser...
IAIN GILLOTT

The first thing to do is to go find a good partner. You need to sign a deal with someone that will m...
IAIN GILLOTT

A lot of the reason that wireless hasn't fully happened yet is that it is too hard. There's always a...
IAIN GILLOTT

I think that in a week to 10 days, he could be back in the running environment.
IAIN DOWIE

If you look at what Tim accomplished as a true freshman, I was disappointed he didn't get any awards...
IAIN BYRNE

This year has been far less turnover and it's been smoother. More familiarity. ... Last year we put ...
IAIN BYRNE

We've struggled to score goals. One of the problems we've had is getting goals from the midfield to ...
IAIN BYRNE

Water stocks have performed abysmally over the last three years. Thames has been driving through int...
IAIN TURNER

International companies may think twice before bidding, because any bid has to be automatically refe...
IAIN TURNER

We have one or two niggles and I want to see how things are tomorrow. This is a big game between two...
IAIN STEWART

I am disappointed at throwing away two points. We created five or six great chances.
IAIN STEWART

We are close to promotion and intend to keep chasing Gretna. We need to keep getting results in the ...
IAIN STEWART

I am really disappointed, as yet again we lost a goal in the last five minutes and it has cost us. B...
IAIN STEWART

[It was a good day for Gretna as their title rivals Peterhead were held to a 1-1 draw by Stenhousemu...
IAIN STEWART

[Peterhead’s title hopes were dealt a blow when they were held to a goalless draw by East Fife.] D...
IAIN STEWART

Dropping five points in our last two games has killed our chances. Even so, we will not give up unti...
IAIN STEWART

There are some great players on the Asian Tour and I am eager to get started.
IAIN STEEL

I am pleased that I managed to get the rhythm going in the closing stages since I had to battle the ...
IAIN STEEL

I finished in the top ten and quite satisfied with my overall performance. Will definitely press on ...
IAIN STEEL

There is still work going on the other nine samples, but the preliminary results from the collaborat...
IAIN SIMPSON

We hope we will be able to announce tomorrow (Wednesday) that Egypt has now been polio-free for a ye...
IAIN SIMPSON

WHO has taken a very public lead in the fight against tobacco use. As a matter of principle, WHO doe...
IAIN SIMPSON

So, it may be that SARS is causing a slightly different or a slightly less severe form of illness at...
IAIN SIMPSON

However, it is clear that the virus the lab has identified is the virus that causes SARS,
IAIN SIMPSON

I think we want the same thing, which is is the rapid sharing of samples. However, as with any inter...
IAIN SIMPSON

It is up to us to assist countries in making sure that they have the right drug policy and we believ...
IAIN SIMPSON

It's not up to us to advise the Global Fund on how to spend their money,
IAIN SIMPSON

I tried to get out of my mind who I was facing, even though I couldn't do it.
IAIN SEBASTIAN

It was nerve-racking. There are a hundred thoughts going through your head because you're playing th...
IAIN SEBASTIAN

That's something I'm going to remember. It'll just push me to get better and better. I just tried to...
IAIN SEBASTIAN

I had nerves at first, but it was a challenge I was looking forward to.
IAIN SEBASTIAN

This year, the model is predicting pretty much what a lot of other people are predicting.
IAIN PARDOE

Each of the categories has become more predictable over time, particularly Best Actress, which was v...
IAIN PARDOE

It could become an overnighter.
IAIN MURRAY

Tony Blair probably felt that action on greenhouse gases was an open and shut case when, early in 20...
IAIN MURRAY

[The Republican leadership is] trying to salvage its flagging fortunes by making the energy industry...
IAIN MURRAY

This is a minor correction of three-hundredths of a degree, concentrated in the tropics. The satelli...
IAIN MURRAY

If Britain's railways are to play a future role in meeting our transport needs in the foreseeable fu...
IAIN MURRAY

That really, really got her down and she became more ill after that. There was anxiety and pressure ...
IAIN MCKIE

I was in the police for 36 years. I always believed fingerprints didn't lie. Now ... I know differen...
IAIN MCKIE

The evidence is overwhelmingly against them; they have the right to speak out but not to attack my d...
IAIN MCKIE

But now it (random testing) is implemented on a Europe-wide basis, that's very important because tha...
IAIN MCGILL

Random testing was resisted by our government for a long time and for similar reasons it may have be...
IAIN MCGILL

It is important that the US pledged to work with the council because no one wants the US outside the...
IAIN LEVINE

Demand for tech talent in Waterloo Region is intensifying. From software developers to seasoned sale...
IAIN KLUGMAN

Waterloo Region offers a lower cost of living, an outstanding quality of life and competitive salari...
IAIN KLUGMAN

Career Concepts is prime picking grounds to find new talent and draw them to this area.
IAIN KLUGMAN

I don't think any coach in the state can put their schedule up against ours. We play a tough schedul...
IAIN JONES

I expect these to be tough games but I have every belief that these girls can compete with these tea...
IAIN JONES

I scheduled a tough schedule because I felt like the girls needed to be challenged. They have come a...
IAIN JONES

It's rewarding to see them start to come around and play the way we have. I've been pleased with our...
IAIN JONES

Sometimes that's hard for the girls to understand. Because they really want to win every game. But t...
IAIN JONES

I'd no alternative. It proved to be a false alarm and I saw the game at home on TV.
IAIN GRAY

It is a hugely important deal for Airbus in what is a very important market,
IAIN GRAY

It is a hugely important deal for Airbus in what is a very important market. It builds on the succes...
IAIN GRAY

This is a hugely important deal for Airbus in what is a very important market for us,
IAIN GRAY

It builds on the success we've had in recent years.
IAIN GRAY

It was as if some magnetic repulsion, which before had kept our two carriages from meeting and passi...
IAIN BANKS

Rouvier was the Finance Minister; I knew him by sight, although I had not yet met him. He was not wi...
IAIN PEARS

No I'm not a great believer in getting back over things and saying if only, or if, or buts becau...
IAIN DUNCAN SMITH

Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.
IAIN DUNCAN SMITH

When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more p...
IAIN DUNCAN SMITH

They speak very well of you".
- "They speak very well of everybody."
- "That so bad?"
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Strange that people are happy to adopt epithets they would fight to the death to throw off had they ...
IAIN M. BANKS

A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the ...
IAIN DUNCAN SMITH

The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.
IAIN DUNCAN SMITH

Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.
IAIN DUNCAN SMITH

Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
IAIN DUNCAN SMITH

Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence...
IAIN DUNCAN SMITH

It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other word...
IAIN DUNCAN SMITH

If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This i...
IAIN DUNCAN SMITH

The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to she...
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