Aidan Quinn Quotes

I had to bring myself back down to being a normal person again.

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• I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Know
  • See
  • Possibility

• I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • American
  • Win
  • Gold

• I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.

  

  Wendy E. Long
  • Children
  • Law
  • City

• In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Today
  • Innovation
  • Google

• I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin romance!

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Believe
  • Win
  • First

• The good news for us is the NHL has never been stronger, never been more popular, and that, I guess, has led to a lot of interest being expressed from a number of places, an interest in getting an expansion team, and Las Vegas happens to be one of those places.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Good
  • Team
  • Popular

• I love to cook for my husband and daughter. I enjoy going to the market for fresh vegetables.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Husband
  • Enjoy
  • Daughter

• I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Up
  • Family
  • Friends

• Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Earth
  • New York
  • Kid

• I was impressionable at that age, and my high school coach did such an unbelievable job helping me, so I want to do that for other kids.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • School
  • Job
  • Kids

• I never really expected to be controversial.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Never
  • Really
  • Controversial

• You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Real
  • Age
  • Passion

• Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Light
  • Eyes
  • Ideas

• Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Illness
  • Mental Illness

• Pooh said good-bye affectionately to his fourteen pots of honey, and hoped they were fifteen; and he and Rabbit went out into the Forest.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Good
  • Forest

• 'In my experience,' he said with more than a touch of bitterness, 'the gods do not seem to care much what their servants deserve-or at least the rewards they give are too subtle for my understanding.'

  

  Tad Williams
  • Experience
  • Understanding

• It is the fallacy of all intellectuals to believe that intellect can grasp life. It cannot, because it works in terms of symbols and language. There is another factor involved: consciousness. If the flame of consciousness is low, a symbol has no power to evoke reality, and intellect is helpless.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Power

• The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Die

• Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Past
  • Words
  • Distant

• When I hear other artists that are new and fresh and exciting, then I get excited.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Artists
  • Exciting
  • Fresh

• Take inventory of yourself, see if any remnants of fear are standing in your way. Then you may grow... because nothing, absolutely nothing, can stand in your way.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • May
  • Way
  • Fear

• I didn't really get serious about my own writing until I was convinced it was something that I wanted to do, that I wanted to spend that much time alone.

  

  Owen King
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Alone

• People want to complain... my point especially when it comes to racial humor is... we have that diversity, so I don't look at it like we are making fun of people, I look at it as how awesome is it that we can talk about this stuff, that we do have this kind of diversity, that we do live in a country that shows an array, unlike any other in the world.

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I had to bring myself back down to being a normal person again.

  

  Aidan Quinn