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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I start to lose my mind if I'm not working on something, like breaking my back on something.
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It's rewarding to be recognized by the fans and other players for my abilities and to be able to represent the Arizona Cardinals fans from around the world.
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Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.
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Trying to give back a little bit is important.
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We address the problems of so many Dutch citizens that are afraid to go out in their neighbourhoods after 10pm, who are afraid to send their children to school because of all the harassment they get from this parallel Islamic society. And people are not extreme in Holland.
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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.
