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Eavan Boland Quotes

When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with custom. Sometimes at night, when I tried to write, a ghost hand seemed to hold mine. Where could my life, my language fit in?

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: irish
Birth: September 24, 1944

Topics

Life Poetry Night Language My Life

I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.

Life Wrong Want Public Racket

Rush Limbaugh, we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican, that's another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches attacks on nuns, well, you know what they say in politics, a hit dog hollers.

Jennifer Granholm

Dog Politics Story You Know Say

The songs sort of come out spontaneously and it'll take me awhile to figure out what exactly is happening lyrically, what kind of story I'm telling. Then I start building little bridges - word bridges - to make everything go from one point to the next point to the next point until it reaches the end.

Me Building Start Story End Bridges

To be able to be a good actress and portray other people's stories, you have to be true to yourself.

Good Yourself People You Be True

I binge pretty much everything. If I'm watching something, I'm bingeing it. I binged 'The Good Place' recently. 'Handmaid's Tale.'

Good Place Watching Everything Much

I'm not sure if I could bear to go on an aeroplane again. It's not my concern for the welfare of the planet. It's not even the long check-in times and queuing. No, it's the humiliation of the security process that has finally done it for me.

Me Process Long Security Go Done

Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.

First Kingdom Ancient Been Almost

If anyone thinks he has no responsibilities, it is because he has not sought them out.

Out Because He Responsibilities Them

Twitter is a good medium to lean how to write jokes. It pushes you to write a better joke in that, on Twitter, the first joke about something has already happened. You need to think of the second joke and the third joke.

Good Think Better You First Need

The great-great-grandfather of my mother was probably using gelatins.

Every striker has their way of playing and their strengths and a different team behind them. That is very important.

Team Important Way Strengths Playing

Jessica Alba to me is on the top of the food chain. She's gorgeous, she's smart, and she really takes care of herself. I think that she looks great. I think that as Jennifer Aniston gets older, she looks better and better, and I really like that.

Great Food Smart Me Think Better

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