Aidan Gillen Quotes

I myself started out quite young; when you're working, professionally, even if you are in your teens, you just want to be treated the same as everybody else. You just want people to see you as an actor and not as a kid.

Aidan Gillen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: April 24, 1968

Topics

MyselfPeopleYouYoungWantActor

My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're in the basement. Mavis, you're singing with the boys.' I said, 'Mr. Finch, my voice isn't soprano. I can't sing up there with the girls.' So I just got out of the choir.

Mavis Staples

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The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a family's income. Because of rising housing costs and stagnant wages, slightly more than half of all poor renting families in the country spend more than 50 percent of their income on housing costs, and at least one in four spends more than 70 percent.

Matthew Desmond

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With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people have a writing career thrust upon them. I am in that last group.

Amish Tripathi

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And it would be fair. Everyone will pay the same tax and it will eliminate tax cheaters and corporate shenanigans.

Steve Forbes

TaxWillFairSameEveryonePay

I had to say to myself, 'I haven't written enough about blackness, yet it's part of my consciousness and my lived experience.' I had to get over that anxiety of 'I haven't done this before.'

Tracy K. Smith

MyselfExperienceAnxietyEnoughSay

I've never taken a job on anything I didn't want to do.

Tony Gilroy

JobWantNeverAnythingTaken

I can see that I can be a role model.

Robbie Lawler

I CanRole ModelSeeRoleModel

People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can actually get some space exploration done.

Robert Zubrin

SpacePeopleFateEnoughExploration

I fear that my mind would starve and that I might find myself in danger if I had no visual information, that it's chiefly the light, the shapes, the spaces, the colors that I see that compel me to keep moving forward in life and that keep me safe.

Rosemary Mahoney

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After 'Spring Awakening,' I wanted to do things that are really challenging and outside my comfort zone: things that scare me a little and make me grow.

Jonathan Groff

SpringMeComfort ZoneGrowComfort

When you're in a hole, stop digging.

Denis Healey

YouStopDiggingHole

After one hundred days of confinement following a bone marrow transplant, I rejoiced in taking short walks to a nearby park as I was writing 'Girl in Hyacinth Blue.' The uncertainty of my survival made every blade of grass gorgeous in its green intensity, lifting itself up, doing its part to make the world beautiful.

Susan Vreeland

GirlBeautifulBlueGreenWorld

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