Aidan Quinn Quotes
I loved working with Meryl Streep twice and I've gotten to work with my friend Liam Neeson on several occasions.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
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Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
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The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
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Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.
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I think that every time a country artist steps outside of the country boundary, it just brings more ears to us.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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I loved working with Meryl Streep twice and I've gotten to work with my friend Liam Neeson on several occasions.
