Island Quotes
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I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.
Michael D. Higgins
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Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off.
William Styron
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There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there.
Esperanza Spalding
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I was from a town called Manhasset, very nice town out on the North Shore of Long Island, New York, but there was a little area, predominantly black population, and it was a small school. I played on the basketball team when I was a junior, and I was the only white guy on the starting five, the top seven actually, and we were really good.
Ken Howard
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Every profession is an island whose inhabitants earn a precarious living by taking in each other’s washing.
Amanda Craig
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California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.
Paul Mazursky
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Not being able to see or interact with children for 20 years was possibly the most difficult thing to endure during my time on the island, there's a poetic justice that children in classrooms all over the world will now be able to visit Robben Island using this technology.
Ahmed Kathrada
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There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.
Billy Joel
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There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true.
Samuel Schmid
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On an island, anything can happen. In a crime novel, it usually does.
Sharon Bolton
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No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.
Mitch Kapor
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She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.
George Bernard Shaw
