Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin Quotes
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Film has to describe and show.
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Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
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I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.
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Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy.
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The first thing I always look at on a girl is her eyes.
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.
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People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is.
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I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.
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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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Nothing is impossible for pure love.
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Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse male mind.
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Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet.
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I now had enough faith not only to believe there were answer, but to feel certain that those answers would become apparent at some point in the future.
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The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
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The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
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Well if you were asking my personal opinion on that I think the answer can only be yes but it was missed. Much as I know I'm responsible for a lot of things, I can't wear any responsibility for that.
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Oh, I wish I organized my books. But I don't. I'm not an organized person. The best I can do is put the books I really like in one sort of general area, and poetry in another.
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One of the most cherished photographs in my life is a picture of me with John Lennon - who I met back in 1971 at an anti-war rally.
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I use my voice as an instrument.
