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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I don't suppose there's a man going, as possesses the fondness for youth that I do. There's youth to the amount of eight hundredpound a-year, at Dotheboys Hall at this present time. I'd take sixteen hundred pound worth, if I could get 'em, and be as fond of every individual twenty pound among 'em as nothing should equal it!
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We've all had that experience where we hear a song that we've liked for many years, and we finally hear what the writer tells us what it's about, and you're often disappointed.
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What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now.
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For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour.
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I like the Edinburgh Film Festival, and I've liked what I've experienced of Glasgow's Film Festival too.
