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Roddy Doyle Quotes

When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore. Although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: irish
Birth: May 8, 1958

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World Speak Think Universe Attention

I feel like modern country is deliberately dumbing down the human race. They're deliberately making people take glory in being uneducated and racist, and it's just sad. I think it's absolute mind control.

Sad People Mind Control Think Feel

I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck.

Intelligence Think Sexy You Stuck

We are all encouraged that Bush appears, really for the first time in his experience on the stage of presidential politics, relaxed. His comfort is our comfort.

Time Experience Politics Comfort Our

From the moment my dad died, from the moment I found out there was the possibility of his dying, there were many surprises - years after, minutes after. The moments I was okay were as surprising as the ones that I wasn't. Making it through the eulogy without losing it. And then the guilt I felt about it. Surprise!

Moment Losing Surprise Guilt Moments

I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? From God's point of view, my revelation is deeply orthodox.

God View Point Of View I Can Why

I've made somewhere around 150 pictures, and a lot of them are B-pictures, I can tell you that. I'd say there's about one hundred of them I don't remember.

Remember You I Can Pictures Say

I want to tell more stories about lying, dual lives, self-deception - those are my favorites.

Courtney A. Kemp

Want Lying More Tell Stories Those

I like Nirvana, but I couldn't say that I was influenced by them. I like to tell a story.

Story Say Tell Nirvana Like Them

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.

Arthur Erickson

Brave Insecurity World America New

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

William Kingdon Clifford

Failure Good Evil Action Wrong Done

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.

Artist More Expression Politician

A couple of weeks after the Olympics, I thought I'd pop down to my local supermarket and do some grocery shopping. One person came up to me in the frozen food aisle, and that was it. I was mobbed, and I had to leave my shopping. Now, I either shop online or go very late at night when the supermarket's nearly empty.

Food Me Shopping Night Thought Down

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