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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• I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
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• As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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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.

  

  Hannah Murray
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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.

  

  Ralph Nader
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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.

  

  Taya Kyle
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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.

  

  Karen DeCrow
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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.

  

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

  

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

  

  K. D. Lang
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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.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Homosexual
  • Microphone
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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.

  

  Aaron Paul
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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.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Help
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• I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.

  

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

  

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  • Music
  • Way
  • Basketball

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

  

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

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Man
  • Yourself
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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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  • Up
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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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• My whole life at a certain point was studio, hotel, stage, hotel, stage, studio, stage, hotel, studio, stage. I was expressing everything from my past, everything that I had experienced prior to that studio stage time, and it was like you have to go back to the well, in order to give someone something to drink. I felt like a cistern, dried up and like there was nothing more. And it was so beautiful.

  

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• I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.

  

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• He snatched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast now for his burred eyes and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever.

  

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  • She
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  • Eyes

• The simple idiot's advice I give to screenwriters who say they want to sell a screenplay is, 'Write good.'

  

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  • Good
  • Simple
  • Advice

• Don't get me started on critics.

  

  Beverly Sills
  • Critics

• 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