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Roddy Doyle Quotes

The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Problem Back Burden Irish Being

Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.

Good Intelligence Shadow Evil Learn

I would say 90 percent of the scripts that show up on my door are women who have had lots of plastic surgery that are married to rich men - sort of a trophy wife.

Jennifer Coolidge

Women Men Wife Door Rich Say

I'm a hopeless romantic. I love love. My middle name is Love. Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday. I want to have a family and children. I am a sucker for every romantic comedy that comes out.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Family Love Children Valentine's Day

My father was a chef but hadn't owned his own business. I didn't like that. In my heart of hearts, I knew I wanted to be in business.

Father Business Heart Chef Own Knew

I think that is just a limitation of any questionnaire - that we apply a frame of reference or standard. It's a well-known finding in psychology that when people are total beginners at a skill, they tend to overrate their skill level. They don't know what they don't know. The more expert you are, the more critical you become.

Angela Duckworth

People Think Finding You Skill Know

My earliest memory campaigning was going to the dump to get petition signatures or handing out literature.

Memory Literature Out Going Get

I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.

Character My Own Own Working Been

I really understood a lot more about comedy after listening to Bill Hicks, who died at 32 years old. He's probably the best comedian who ever lived. Although you can't say that because of Carlin, Cosby and Pryor.

Best Listening Comedy You Say More

I've cried my eyes out and wanted to end it all before. I hope everybody's gone that far, because it makes life rich.

Life Hope Eyes Rich End Out

For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.

Life My Life Long Years Writer Had

Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.

Insecurity Control You Bad Know

Motherhood runs its own way and is measured with another watch that, unfortunately, we can't control.

Control Motherhood Way Own Watch

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