Lynn Collins Quotes
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The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.
Eddie Murphy -
The characters in 'Ray Donovan' are not very articulate - we're the worst Irish family you could ever live next to in L.A.
Eddie Marsan -
My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
Natascha McElhone -
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
Van Morrison -
My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
Olivia Wilde -
It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?
Kate Bush
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The gun is not out of Irish politics.
Ian Paisley -
Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
Oliver St. John -
My wife's a loving, funny, Irish-spirited person, and I'm still surprised at some of the things she says. She makes me laugh every day.
Gary Sinise -
I'm down to bleach my eyebrows again. I tell you what, though - that didn't go down well with my boyfriend. Girls love it. Guys, not so into it.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde -
Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.
Yvonne Strahovski
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I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.
Harrison Ford -
Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness as a poetic end, they are merely exploiting incidental local colour.
Patrick Kavanagh -
I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a Punch and Judy show; and the delighted children went back to tell their parents what grand curses 'An Craoibhin' had put on the baby and the policeman.
Lady Gregory -
I was born into an Irish Catholic family in the New York area in this great, wonderful, and safe country, but the Holocaust has always haunted me, and it has long stood as a stumbling block to faith. How could such a thing be? How is that consistent with the concept of a loving God?
James Comey -
I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.
Anne Enright -
I went into the world confident my tea training would open many doors. And I did particularly well with the Irish and fellow Nova Scotians over 60. But this only got me so far. It took a long time to cultivate the tricks of easy social interaction.
Lynn Coady
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The lion's share of the damage to the Irish economy was the fault of domestic, economic, and financial mismanagement.
Enda Kenny -
Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
Irwin Shaw -
if you play the numbers game and become obsessed with it, as so many in Hollywood are, sooner or later you have to face the depressing fact that if you are number one the only place you can go is down.
Doris Day -
I compete in a sport on an individual basis, but I have never done it for me.
Victoria Pendleton -
I want to be clear: The United States of America has done what we said we would do. That’s not to say that our work is complete.
Barack Obama -
I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint.
Lynn Collins