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
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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 -
As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
Octavia Spencer -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
K. D. Lang -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
Karan Johar -
Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
Flo Rida
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
Kajol -
Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
Rachel Roy -
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.
Katha Pollitt -
Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
Viggo Mortensen -
Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.
Nadia Bjorlin -
When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
Gabe Kaplan
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Have you noticed that the cleverest people at school are often not the ones who succeed in life?
Paul Arden -
I started studying indigenous cultures and I was really inspired by their life styles and the way that they lived. Part of that was knowing how to survive in the wild and knowing how to heal themselves from the plants that grew around them.
Shailene Woodley -
There are millions and millions of products out there. You can look at eBay and Amazon. You can look at every product on the planet, but trying to figure out which one is best for you is really the challenge.
Katrina Lake -
The first time I tried to sing along with my guitar, everybody in the studio booed. They all said it wouldn't work.
George Benson -
Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.
Carol Moseley Braun -
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