Aidan Quinn Quotes

Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.

Aidan Quinn

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• Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • People
  • Politics
  • Ethical

• Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • Advice
  • Wants

• I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Freedom

• People always ask me if I'm nervous about the intense sci-fi fans. To me that doesn't seem weird or scary. I get really intense about my favorite sci-fi shows, my favorite shows in general.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • People
  • Me
  • Weird

• I remember going to the Gap when I was in the fifth grade, and I desperately wanted a pair of blue jeans. I was with my dad, and I remember picking up the jeans, looking at them, and thinking that they had to fit me. But there was nothing that fit me. This was before the age of stretch, so I was trying on adult Gap.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• Most people, even most doctors, learn that the placenta is a nice, tight seal that prevents anything in the mother's body from invading the fetus, and vice-versa. That's mostly true. But the placenta doesn't seal off the baby perfectly, and every so often, something slips across.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • True
  • Mother

• I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Great
  • School
  • Art

• Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Progress
  • Life Is A

• Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way to celebrate milestones in your life than with precious platinum.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Life
  • Better
  • Celebrate

• Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Goal
  • Leadership
  • Common

• I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!

  

  Sally Field
  • Time
  • Career
  • Me

• Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • True
  • You
  • Wisdom

• I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Great
  • Find
  • New York

• I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • People
  • Know
  • Shy

• I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Work
  • Me
  • Actor

• I think one of the reasons Stephen King's stories work so well is that he places his stories in spooky old New England, where a lot of American folk legends came from.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Work
  • American
  • King

• There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • Time
  • Just
  • Boots

• A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • School
  • Football
  • Study

• People often say that having a family makes you make safer choices. It's been the total opposite for me. It's really made me want to make bolder choices.

  

  Jamie Cullum
  • People
  • Family
  • Choices

• Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Play
  • Better
  • Choose

• Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed a task force, which I'm on, and over the next couple months the task force is going to try to come up with legislation that does what we're all trying to do. I feel pretty good about the members that are on the task force.

  

  Charlie Norwood
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Society
  • Celebrity
  • Everyone

• Being in the studio, it's more of a controlled environment, where you can be Salvador Dali and sit back and look at the painting. And you can go, 'Ah, you know what? Maybe a little bit more red over here...maybe add some blue over here.' You can sit back and look at the painting.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Environment
  • Painting
  • Red

• Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.

  

  Aidan Quinn
  • Celebrity