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.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Fun
  • Right
  • WIld

• I would rather be on the set than doing anything.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Doing
  • Anything
  • Rather

• 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.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Trying
  • Days
  • Ironic

• Everybody knows the story of The Smiths. You can still go and see Morrissey.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • You
  • Story
  • See

• I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Think
  • Seriously
  • Grunge

• You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • You
  • Hand
  • Fast

• It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Up
  • Start
  • Mountain

• 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.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Control
  • Give
  • Potential

• 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.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Man
  • You
  • Naked

• There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Heart

• Frankly, I don't understand the monthly magazines that continue to publish news that is two months old and which has already been reported on ad nauseam online, including on their own websites.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Understand
  • Old
  • News

• Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • May
  • Best
  • Broken

• 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.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • World
  • Great
  • Guy

• 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.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Up
  • Single
  • Couple

• I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Classes
  • Academics
  • Collected

• 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.

  

  Zach Anner
  • World
  • Best
  • Baby

• 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.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.

  

  Princess Diana
  • Journey
  • Kindness

• Tonight love and hate met in St. Louis. And love outnumbered the hate, in poetic thousands. Hate left. But love stayed. + Together, we sang.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Together
  • Hate

• Do not let the word 'tripe' deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Always
  • Enjoy
  • Win

• As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Words
  • Poetry
  • Creativity

• Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Music
  • Jazz
  • Way Of Thinking

• I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved.

  

  Aidan Quinn