Aidan Quinn Quotes
I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved.
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Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.
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I would rather be on the set than doing anything.
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It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.
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Everybody knows the story of The Smiths. You can still go and see Morrissey.
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I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.
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It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
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Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
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The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
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Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.
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Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.
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The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
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I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue sky! Ugh. Sparkling clear air, just terrible. I couldn't do it.
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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.
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There's no denying it: I was a crappy baby who failed his way into this world, and I've been making the best of it ever since.
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It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
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One of the things that may appeal to teenagers is that vampires never change - they're frozen in that age.
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These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.
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I grew up, obviously, watching tons of animation; Saturday morning cartoons or anything that we could get our hands on. And then when 'The Simpsons' premiered, that just kind of changed the landscape of everything. We hadn't had prime time animations since 'The Flintstones.'
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Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.
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Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in fictional form.
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We have to understand the ubiquity of energy in everything we do. Energy is core to our economy and it brings with it environmental challenges, and it's core to our security challenges.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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Toni Collette is one of my favorite. I have a passion for actresses. The list is going to be very, very long.
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I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved.
