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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Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.
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You haven't seen a lot of turnover in my campaign. And the culture of my campaign is one in which I think everybody feels a great sense of ownership.
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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
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Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
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The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.
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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
