Eavan Boland Quotes
I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
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Social interactions have always been a bit of a difficult thing for me. I think I have a natural tendency to make people not 100 percent super comfortable.
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I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.
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Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well.
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I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.
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It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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I don't ever wish I was somebody else.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
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There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
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If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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I know how to hit a mark without looking. I instinctively know where my eye line should be. That's all 100%. But your character and the story are always different, so the emotional part is not muscle memory. You're still surprised by stuff and get the adrenaline.
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Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
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I am very proud to be a Latina, because that's also something that makes me very unique.
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I still have some very dear friends from school, and we get together whenever possible.
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After the demise of the Soviet Union, we had many problems of our own for which no one was responsible but ourselves: the economic downfall, the collapse of the welfare system, the separatism, and of course the terror attacks that shook our country. In this respect, we do not have to look for guilty parties abroad.
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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
