Eavan Boland Quotes

When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with custom. Sometimes at night, when I tried to write, a ghost hand seemed to hold mine. Where could my life, my language fit in?

Eavan Boland

• Life
• Night
• Hand
• Poetry
• Language
• Irish

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• President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

  

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• I think when you suffer a tremendous loss, everybody needs love and support in tangible ways. And that's what people have done for us.

  

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• Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.

  

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• The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.

  

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• It's actually harder to write a fun song.

  

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• You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

  

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• I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.

  

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• I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.

  

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• As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.

  

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• I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.

  

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• Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.

  

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• As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

  

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• Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.

  

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• Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.

  

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• Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

  

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• Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.

  

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• In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time.

  

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• Then as now, evil begins its courtship cloaked in light. And the heart embraces what is should flee. Forgetting it once had a true lover. Love will prove greater than lust. Sacrifice will overcome seduction. And blood will flow.

  

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• When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with custom. Sometimes at night, when I tried to write, a ghost hand seemed to hold mine. Where could my life, my language fit in?

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Life
  • Night
  • Hand