Brendan Behan Quotes
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime?
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.
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Death does determine life.
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I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.
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I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.
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Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
