Patrick Kavanagh Quotes
Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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I try to photobomb as much as possible.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That's a savage person who looks at everything as a story and, you know, wants to use real life in his books. The other part is the Midwesterner, who, you know, wants to say nice things about people and be polite.
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In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.
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A good life is a main argument.
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I'd done a bachelor's degree, which I'd enjoyed, but I didn't know what to do with my life at the time. I was conflicted, and, being a hopeless romantic, I followed my girlfriend at the time to Vanderbilt, where, obviously, we broke up a couple of months later.
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Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.
