Eavan Boland Quotes
I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.
Quotes to Explore
-
In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
-
Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
-
For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
-
Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
-
Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
-
From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
-
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
-
I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
-
You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
-
I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
-
Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
-
I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
-
You just have to go to bat and take a swing. And if you're not right for a part, or it goes to a British man, they may remember that you showed up, knew your lines and were good. And maybe they'll call you in for something else.
-
It's great that people are interested in Mars.
-
I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
-
I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
-
I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
-
It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
-
I began to suspect that Daddy had been right all along: the only hope I had of changing the world was to change myself first.
-
It is hard that people don't just let you do your job for them and entertain, and then carry on your own life.
-
The conviction that the best way to prepare children for a harsh, rapidly changing world is to introduce formal instruction at anearly age is wrong. There is simply no evidence to support it, and considerable evidence against it. Starting children early academically has not worked in the past and is not working now.
-
I don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.
-
I have no problem putting my feet up and watching football but my mother-in-law is always doing stuff.
-
I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.
