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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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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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 want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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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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I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
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Part of being an actor is never knowing where your next part is coming from.
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There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.
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Trying to imagine what it's like to be someone else is never a substitute for actually living that way, for acknowledging the respect that we need to have for each other's experiences.
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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?
