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 still can't spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.
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Never let me hear anyone say again that a Socialist State cannot provide outlets for those with initiative. The rewards given to ability in the U.S.S.R. at all levels are far greater than those given to the employed in capitalist Britain. I have seen it and it works.
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Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.
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I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty.
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Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
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For me, now, working and children is it. There's nothing more to life.
