Eavan Boland Quotes
I still believe many poets begin in fear and hope: fear that the poetic past will turn out to be a monologue rather than a conversation. And hope that their voice can be heard as that past turns into a future.
Quotes to Explore
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I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Africa has no future.
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I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have.
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I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
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I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.
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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
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The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
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I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.
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Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.
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I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.
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Solutions are complex, and I continue to worry that Trump didn't fully appreciate the complexity of what's going on. Consequently, I worry about whether he's going to make the problems a whole lot better... But I am a Republican, and we really should give the guy a chance to govern and hope he's successful.
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Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.
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I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.
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I do believe that the states have the right to make the definition of marriage, and each state can define it as they so choose through their elected representatives.
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It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.
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I don't fear anything now.
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What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.
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Our policies should be to help develop civil society and increase contacts with people.
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I hate rules. I hate 'This is the way things are done'. I hate a lack of reinvention. I hate theatre as an archeological exercise. Theatre needs to be urgent.
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Love, desire, ambition, faith - without them, life's so simple, believe me.
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Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.
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Tough love is the hardest to give.
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I still believe many poets begin in fear and hope: fear that the poetic past will turn out to be a monologue rather than a conversation. And hope that their voice can be heard as that past turns into a future.
