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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I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.
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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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Feminists had an astoundingly naive view of the mutual exclusiveness of sex and aggression, which, Freud demonstrates, are fused in the amoral unconscious, as revealed to us through dreams. That rape is simply what used to be called 'unbridled lust,' like gluttony a sin of insufficient self-restraint, seems to be beyond the feminist ken.
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I have a strong and strange character, and I've rarely met directors who knew what to do with this character. One of the few who did was my father, and in the theatre, Arthur Nauzyciel.
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I learned that in dealing with things, you spent much more time and energy in dealing with people than in dealing with things.
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Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots.
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If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I defied not
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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.
