Aidan Quinn Quotes
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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I don't do meetings.
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My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'
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I think I'm a much better father as an older man than I was with my first kids. Occasionally, I have to yell at the little guys, but they don't take me seriously. 'Listen to the old guy,' they say. 'Isn't he great? He's mad.'
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In television, you make an hour-long episode every seven days; we used to make 'Party Down' in four days per episode. It's quick and with independent movies is the same: you gotta keep moving. It's very similar.
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You don't want to pigeonhole yourself.
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Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
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There's certainly more work for me in TV these days.
