Eavan Boland Quotes
At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.
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The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.
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I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.
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I did not know I was a Midwesterner until I got there. I just fell in love with the people.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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George W. Bush always said and did what he believed and he let it rip.
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My record speaks for itself.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.
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When Gordon Brown becomes prime minister, the balance sheet that reflects his economic stewardship could look very sickly indeed. He could become Labour's biggest liability, not its most marketable asset.
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There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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I'm on every worst-dressed list imaginable.
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There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.
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I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course. I did not spend much formal time in school - I had to work.
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I think maintenance comes from a daily spiritual growth practice of some kind: prayer, meditation, affirmations. Something that keeps you in the consciousness of higher thoughts and energy. That's also how you make sure you don't do it again.
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I grew up in an upper-middle-class town with a population around 12,000. My high school held around a thousand kids. All smart. We had a strict dress code. If you wore blue jeans to school, they sent you home.
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At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.
