Maria Doyle Kennedy Quotes
My children have very little interest in my work. The most important question they have for me is, 'What's for tea?'
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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Any politician that says no tax revenue or zero spending cuts does not deserve reelection. Our hole is so deep in this country with the debt and the debt service, the interest on that debt, before the big expenses come for Social Security and Medicare - for we baby boomers in a few years - that everything has to be on the table.
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McCabe's Law: Nobody has to do anything.
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Bieber has taste and pull, which is as important to making quality pop as actual talent.
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Public schools in the late '80s and early '90s were a total mess... we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.
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All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that and set out to write something story-led.
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My children have very little interest in my work. The most important question they have for me is, 'What's for tea?'
