Frank Delaney Quotes

For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to all sorts of incidents that, if taken together, add up to a war - bombings, assassinations, riots, shootings, robberies, jailbreaks, kidnappings, and sieges.

Frank Delaney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: October 24, 1942 - February 21, 2017

Topics

LifeTogetherWarMy LifeOutLived

I am more interested in asking questions about the edges of things and thoughts. So the objects I use are not initially the subjects of the work; they are its ground.

Jessica Stockholder

WorkI AmThoughtsQuestionsAsking

On my grandmother's chicken farm, they had cows, and they had this big metal container that the cows drank out of, and we used to swim in it. And we used to get into the chicken feed bins and dive through them.

Jerry Hall

FarmChickenGrandmotherDiveOut

When I discovered that, through acting, you can speak a beautiful language aloud and have a relationship to language that isn't one that's just eyes-to-page, pen-to-page - it's one that's full-bodied, full-voiced, full-heart... it really opened my heart and made me feel like I could be a storyteller.

Maya Hawke

RelationshipHeartBeautifulMeYou

I was a short, chubby kid, pretty shy.

Matthew Lewis

ShortShyKidPrettyChubby

One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist.

Anish Kapoor

BelieveArtistMustOneselfThose

Acting never crossed my mind for a moment when I was growing up.

Tommy Flanagan

MomentMindGrowing UpActingNever

I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.

Josh Hartnett

CareerActingKindNeverPainter

I've been recognised in garages. I'll be paying for my petrol, and I'll see this guy looking at me, thinking, 'Is it him?' Then he'll be looking at my car: 'No, he couldn't be driving that car.' I've actually had two people say to me:,'Hello Dominic, I thought you might have a better car than that, mate!'

Dominic Holland

CarPeopleMeLookingBetterYou

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

Christopher Hitchens

LiveChildrenWorldEnoughRiseSee

Sometimes I daydream about having a farm and a wife and some babies and watching the grass grow, but you have to meet the right person for that.

Conor Oberst

WifeRight PersonGrowFarmYou

I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.

Corazon Aquino

FamilyFaithChildrenSupportPeople

The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.

Chuck Palahniuk

TrustBestFriendsStrangersBetween

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