Aidan Gillen Quotes
I like the Edinburgh Film Festival, and I've liked what I've experienced of Glasgow's Film Festival too.
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
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Not only am I constantly seeking better performance but also to be a better person, to be respected.
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Although anything can happen when under the influence of ice water.
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That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be.
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I don't want to look back and be like, 'You had it all, and you weren't even present for it. You weren't able to enjoy it.' I want to be here, be now and be grateful.
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I can count my friends on one hand.
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I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.
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I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
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The greatest preventative to terrorism is Muslim religious literacy.
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I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
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You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.
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You have to prove that you know what you're doing. You have to have longevity. You have to stay around.
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Boys, do you hear that musketry and that artillery? It means that our friends are falling by the hundreds at the hands of the enemy, and here we are guarding a damned creek! Let's go and help them. What do you say?
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At some point, Dekteon saw, his own world had come close to such a religion, where women ruled and men died-but the road had taken a different turning. Now the hints of the ancient mystery remained only in songs. It was the men who were the masters. Maybe not for the better, and not for the worse, either. But all this was unimportant.
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If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.
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When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy.
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On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.
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You have to grow. I can't be the same person I was at 18; otherwise, I'd be stagnant.
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What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'
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'How does your life turn out?' That's the ultimate novelistic question to me.
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I like the Edinburgh Film Festival, and I've liked what I've experienced of Glasgow's Film Festival too.
