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Daniel Gillies Biography

Daniel Gillies (born March 14, 1976) is a Canadian-born New Zealand actor. He is best known for his role as Elijah Mikaelson on the television series The Vampire Diaries and its spin-off The Originals, as well as Dr. Joel Goran on the Canadian series Saving Hope, a medical themed show with a mystical, paranormal twist. He was also in NCIS. He wrote and directed the 2012 film Broken Kingdom.

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I love to watch my daughter. At twenty-two months, that little soul is developing at a rate I will never understand. She's kind of taught me that growth and expansion are a person's natural state and inclination.

Daughter, Developing, Months, Soul, Taught, Two

If you devote yourself entirely to a pursuit, there is no way you cannot find beauty and fulfillment.

Beauty, Fulfillment, Pursuit, Way

People never regret when they come out of a movie and they've been crying. I think people need it. That's why people have the theater and live music, which is dwindling as well. I think people like to go see things and have an emotional, transcendent, universal human experience, but so often we're like, "Let's go watch Green Lantern," which we all know is just not going to do anything for our souls.

Emotional, Experience, Know, Regret, Things, Thinking

The romance of circumvention is one of the most destructive forces at work in our society. The American Idol freeway to greatness, Instagramming one's way into popular consciousness with selfies of our ass folds beneath short shorts, human growth hormone and performance-enhancing drugs for athletes, Adderall for the idle mind, reality television that sacrifices our dignity for fifteen lousy minutes.

Athlete, Sacrifice, Reality, Ass, Fifteen, Greatness

New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

Aggression, Behavior, Conventions, Encouraged, Pleasantries

You're making a big mistake if you think that you can beat me.

Beats, Making, Mistake, Think, Thinking

Most infants are geniuses. They're indomitable, fearless, and completely in harmony with a cosmic proclivity for growth. They're heroes because they walk directly through adversity with love and ardent resolve.

Hero, Adversity, Fearless, Resolve, Geniuses

We are taught to want a thing. We are taught that having that thing will make us happy. We are taught that having it immediately is the answer. We are taught a corrupted version of success. And love.

And Love, Answers, Happy, Success, Version, Want

I'm not George Clooney, so I can't just pick and choose. I take roles where they occur.

George, I Can, Picks, Roles, Take

I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.

Country, Having, Japan, Remember

At every turn you have to find a new kind of self-sovereignty over your environment. Every kid I see is at the mercy of Periscope, Twitter, or an Angry Bird of some description. People are shackled to their mediocrity by companies and businesses who want to consume your life with theirs.

Angry, Kids, People, Periscope, See, Self

If you do your work, eventually there will be a spark. A fire. A blaze.

Blaze, Fire, Ifs, Sparks, Work

Nobody really truly supporting independent filmmakers anymore. It's just dire. There's a lot of bad filmmaking, and there's a lot of people worshipping some terrible filmmakers. It's a waste of all of our time, if you don't feel anything. We are an age of YouTube kids. We don't care so much anymore. It's all about marketing.

Age, Filmmakers, Independent, Kids, People, Worshipping

Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.

Adore, Kiwi, People, Tell, Travel

We are contaminated with the idea of "winning" and defeating others. Indoctrinated by parents, schools, and our ubiquitous media, hammered with a lie: The only way to be truly triumphant is if we are dominant before supposed "competitors" rather than beautiful before ourselves.

Beautiful, Competitors, Dominant, Lying, Parents, School

Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy poet. He just has this immediate gregariousness, like, you kind of just want to be his pal.

Gregariousness, Kevin, Pal, Pals, Want