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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I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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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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All men are intellectuals: but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.
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We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us.
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Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.
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You know if there is a rabid dog running around your neighborhood, you're probably not going to assume something good about that dog, and you're probably gonna put your children out of the way. Doesn't mean that you hate all dogs by any stretch of the imagination.
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For me, now, working and children is it. There's nothing more to life.
