Gillian Anderson
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Biography
Gillian Leigh Anderson is an American actress. She received international fame for starring as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the Fox science fiction mystery series The X-Files, winning a Golden Globe Award for the role.
"I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that."
"Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with."
"I cannot abide red tape. It never strangles bad ideas, only good ones."
"The United States ambassador’s proposal for a demilitarized zone between the nations had been met with derision in India, whose pundits pointed out that Pakistan could not even establish a de-terrorized zone within it own borders."
"If irony were clean water, this would be a paradise."
"Is that the ultimate paradox of life, she wondered, that the universe should become less clear with age?"
"Every fictional character is based on someone. My English teacher told us that."
"But “everyone knew” were words of death in scientific research."
"Predawn has always been undervalued as a witching hour, she thought. Midnight, in prose and poem, had gotten all the glory. At this hour, though, people had to gather their lonely, enervated willpower and make the first choices of the day. For that you needed raw courage."
"The universe doesn’t editorialize."
"Familiarity helped to construct subterfuge."
"“I thought we had the conversation about my being uninterested in your opinions,” Flora said."
"Flora chose that moment to selectively not hear."
"An archaeology group that hadn’t publicized one of the greatest finds in the history of the field was probably not to be trusted."
"It’s a fair bargain. Some trust, some distrust, in the end win win."
"Mikel knew better than to question her. Not because she was always right, but because there was no changing her mind once it was set."
"Hot water is good for bathing, bad for fish."
"“The intrigue is not even what makes this work intriguing,” he quipped."
"The geology, the cosmos, they waken something. Even in scientists."
"“Divination has always embraced strange, ultimately disproved customs,” she said."
"Either everything matters or nothing does."
"In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school."
"It's so funny, because right now I'm very tired and my brains a little dead, I tend to get very focused and serious. So, I'm probably coming off a lot more like Scully right now."
"I think she definitely has. I think, um, her and Mulder's relationship has become more equal. And, I think she has become stronger and more independent over the seasons."
"I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that."