Patrick Kavanagh Quotes
Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry much longer than me about artists' block, things I'm struggling with, or the music business. It's really important for artists to have a community. Sometimes you can feel quite isolated.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.
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In the end, the market will decide which is the better performer: dirty coal-fired power or clean wind and solar. Market-based competition. That doesn't sound like communism to me.
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You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.
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The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction.
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You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
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I went to an audition the other day, they were casting 13 people to be clouds. 14 people showed up, it was overcast.
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That's not news! When a shark comes out of the water, walks into a 7-11, and bites you in the ass, then it's news!
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A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be Uranus, or it may be in the shutter.
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Every single time I perform 'River,' I just feel a huge rush of adrenaline and energy, and I remember writing it.
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
