Daniel Gillies Quotes
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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There's a lot of comedy in 'The Guest,' so it was a bit more fun in a sense - it wasn't so heavy like 'It Follows.'
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One Tweet can be heard 'round the world if the right people retweet it and the right people notice it on their feeds.
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A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
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I have a great office.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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Politics is a good thing!
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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I truly believe diversity is beauty.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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I miss my horse. He's in Los Angeles.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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I learn something new about love every day. For example, loving yourself is just as important as loving other people.
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It's very hard to track down what's real and what's not real. We haven't absorbed what climate change is doing. Because whether people associate it or not, fear of immigration is completely related to climate change, because the mass migrations that are happening, the war in Syria, all of these structural human migrations are related to climate change.
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I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I'm bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up.
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It doesn’t matter where I am-China will stay in me. I don’t know how far I can still walk on this road and what is the limit.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
