Aidan Gillen Quotes
In drama you can either pretend everything is OK, or you can show the world as it really is in the hope that it gets better.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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It's super dope when you connect with something personally.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
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I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.
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It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing.
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In a triathlon, it's all about cycling in the most efficient manner. You need to save your energy for the run at the end, so you want to ride really efficiently and not waste your energy. The only way to do that is to spend a really long time on the bike.
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Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.
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I think that creative work, music in particular, is a conveyor of inner emotional life. I don't feel one way all the time, so I don't want my music to feel the same way all the time.
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For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.
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The goal is not to add years to your life, but to add life to your years
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In drama you can either pretend everything is OK, or you can show the world as it really is in the hope that it gets better.
