Tom Paulin Quotes

Again and again, I find something eerie in many Irish occasions - the unrelenting whiteness, the emotional tribal attachments, the violent prejudices lurking beneath apparently pleasant social surfaces, the cosy smugness of belonging.

Tom Paulin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: January 25, 1949

Topics

FindBelongingIrishEmotionalAgain

Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.

Matthew Macfadyen

GoodCharacterPeopleThinkSpark

She has no imagination and that means no compassion.

Michael Foot

CompassionImaginationSheMeans

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

Jean Rostand

MenManThinkBadSayImage

I want to literally quit drag and go live in the woods somewhere and write music for my favorite female singers, like Miley Cyrus or Kacey Musgraves. I would love to be able to write music for them and hear these women I admire sing my songs. That would be like doing drag without having to get into drag myself.

Trixie Mattel

LoveWomenLiveMusicMyselfWoods

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

Tryon Edwards

StrengthHabitBrokenSteelChains

Developing countries need to commit additional resources and have the political will to improve education.

Julia Gillard

EducationPoliticalWillNeedCommit

All of my writing career is about how human beings negotiate dark matter.

Janette Turner Hospital

WritingCareerDarkMatterHuman

I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.

Diane Kruger

WarWorldWorld War IChristmasFilm

People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.

Chris Hughes

PeopleAmazingDoingNowRightWeb

Golf is a working man's sport in Scotland.

Brian Binnie

ManGolfWorkingScotlandSport

I'll never forget the fall colors on the Berkshires.

William Standish Knowles

ColorsNever ForgetFallForget

I think it's just amazing to be in a group of women, in a group of people that you can spend enough time with them to really get to know people and be inspired by them and learn something new about them every day.

Phillipa Soo

WomenTimeDayPeopleAmazingThink

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