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?
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I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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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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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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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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I was about 15 years old, and I needed a job, and somebody I know - I don't even know who it was - said that there was a television show that needed a presenter and that I should go and audition for it, so I did. That was a show called 'The Word,' and I got that job.
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I'm the type of person that you'd walk past and go, 'I think I went to school with her,' or 'I know her and I can't quite place it.' It certainly isn't, 'I know her full name, and I can tell you who she is.'
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Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign.
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I'm biased toward romantic comedies; they're probably my favorite genre.
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A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.
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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?
