Eoin Colfer Quotes
When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't.
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It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.
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Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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Just as humans have a prior right to existence over dogs by virtue of being more highly evolved and having a superior consciousness, so women have a prior right to existence over men. The elimination of any male is, therefore, a righteous and good act, an act highly beneficial to women as well as an act of mercy.
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I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.
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The thing I love is that my home life hasn't changed. I still help out with the garbage. I still help out with the lawn.
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I believe that, artistically and culturally, the free radio air should be able to support local artists of whatever genre. Play 40 percent of your local artists; don't suck up to major labels to the point where you neglect your own locale.
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When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't.
