Roddy Doyle Quotes

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

Roddy Doyle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I have to admit, I go through phases of being good and bad. When I'm being good, I go to the gym three to four times a week. I do much better in a class with other people. I like aerobics and circuit training.

Joanne Froggatt

GoodTrainingPeopleBetterWeek

Design has become a universal medium for expressing ideas, raising fundamental questions, and addressing social challenges.

Jens Martin Skibsted

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Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Andy Grove

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You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

Johnny Cash

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I'm a rapper trying to be an actor.

Method Man

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'Last Man Standing' has been an amazing treat because it is the best day job you could have because we laugh every day. It lightened me up a bit because I tend to go to some dark places.

Amanda Fuller

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I was too aggressive. Too angry.

Rohan Marley

AngryAggressiveToo

Being the heavy favorite is not always a good thing because of the amount of pressure on an athlete.

Mirai Nagasu

GoodPressureAthleteAlwaysHeavy

Certainly there is abundant evidence of the early transmission by literary means of a considerable number of drolls and folk-tales from India about the time of the Crusaders.

Joseph Jacobs

TimeEarlyIndiaEvidenceMeans

I want to be a combination of P. Diddy and Oprah.

Ciara

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The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.

Brendan Myers

TimeMomentCivilizationBirthWhole

There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.

Bob Brown

TechnologyBetterAustraliaSolar

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