Aidan Turner Quotes
I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that.

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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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You never get every job you want.
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If I can go out there and be everywhere on the field, that's what I can control.
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There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.
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It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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For centuries, economic thinkers, from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes, have tried to identify the elusive formula that makes some countries more prosperous and successful than others. My curiosity about this topic spurred me, as a young professor of economics in the late 1970s, to research new ways of measuring national competitiveness.
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We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs... to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they're going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans.
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This life, this entire world, was a crucible. It was the crusade of their times, and they were the knights, the warriors.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
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I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
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I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that.