Roddy Doyle Quotes

I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great musicians Ireland has given the world in the last 20 years, you can do it on one hand.

Roddy Doyle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The written word is everything.

John Drinkwater

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Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the world's most influential living moral philosophers. He has written 30 books on ethics and held a variety of professorial chairs over the past four decades in North America.

John Cornwell

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My new toy is not knowing, because it's very creative. I'm the guy who likes to get in the car and get lost.

Jeffrey Tambor

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What was so lovely about 'O.J.' and 'This Is Us' to a certain extent is that I got a chance to surprise people.

Sterling K. Brown

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The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

Mary Antin

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I don't need to be super-ripped all year round. That's a pretty miserable way to live your life.

Luke Evans

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We need to increase the transparency of shadow banking markets so that authorities can monitor for signs of excessive leverage and unstable maturity transformation outside regulated banks.

Janet Yellen

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You probably know me as a producer for 'This American Life', a top podcast in iTunes.

Chris Sacca

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Stock is everything in cooking, at least in French cooking. Without it, nothing can be done. If one's stock is good, what remains of the work is easy; if, on the other hand, it is bad or merely mediocre, it is quite hopeless to expect anything approaching a satisfactory result.

Auguste Escoffier

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When we talk about having a life of significance and meaning, it's not about fame or money or resources. It's about people and lives and hearts. That's my biggest passion in life.

Tim Tebow

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Alex O'Loughlin is an old friend. Actually, when he first came to L.A., he stayed at my house.

Martin Henderson

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Since I've turned 50, I've had the best roles of my life, and I've got married. Everyone said that wasn't possible because there are no men, but I've done it. I think it's just going to get better.

Lesley Nicol

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