Aidan Gillen Quotes
I've made a point of trying not to play the same part and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year, and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, that's a good career strategy. Or at least, it's my strategy to keep my head together.
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The want of money is the root of all evil.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Denys Cowan and Dwayne Turner's visions of Wakanda as an ersatz African Epcot Center opened my eyes to the unexploited possibilities; these men, both of whom are African American, together with writer Peter B. Gillis, created an African Asgard of sorts, and I just went, 'Oh, my.'
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There is enormous continuity beneath the day-to-day news that makes America that indispensable nation when it comes to maintaining order and promoting prosperity around the world.
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And I think I find, I know a lot of people around, in different cities, and so it's not - it might sound strange - but it's not that hard to say good-bye, because I know there's other people where I'm going. I can sort of fit in in a lot of places.
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The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society
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Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.
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I've made a point of trying not to play the same part and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year, and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, that's a good career strategy. Or at least, it's my strategy to keep my head together.
