Aidan Gillen Quotes
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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I am healthy and happy.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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I like to discover new things.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree!
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No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.
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Same with souls. They can't survive without a body for long.
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Money can be issued only in the act of buying, and can be backed only in the act of selling. Any buyer who is also a seller is qualified to be a money issuer. Government, because it is not and should not be a seller, is not qualified to be a money issuer.
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For me, now, working and children is it. There's nothing more to life.
