Aidan Gillen Quotes
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.
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Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.
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In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.
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What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.
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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
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It's always a good idea to let the audience make up their own minds.
