Patrick Pearse - who set the events of 1916 in motion when he read the Proclamation of the Irish Republic from the steps of the General Post Office in Dublin - is not exactly an unfamiliar name to the Miramichi Irish.
Terry Glavin
NameIrishEventsOfficeStepsPost
Among the events of John McCain's five-and-a-half years of imprisonment and torture in North Vietnam, probably the most heroic, and surely the most celebrated, was his refusal to accept an early release from his captors.
Bret Stephens
EarlyAcceptEventsYearsVietnam
'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.
Paul Schrader
My OwnEventsTaxiOwnDriverState
Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.
Bruce Jackson
WarMediaReadyKnowAcceptEvents
I used to sing at mata ki chowkis and other religious events, and people loved me.
Neha Kakkar
PeopleMeLovedEventsUsedSing
Usually, I come for film promotions or events, but I have so many fond memories of Delhi.
Anushka Sharma
MemoriesEventsFilmComeDelhi
I can't write anything if I don't know where it's set, where the events are happening - even if the details of setting are minimal.
Laura van den Berg
DetailsKnowEventsWriteAnything
I'm very happy to have set a world record in Tallinn. Estonians sure do love athletics and combined events!
Ashton Eaton
LoveHappyWorldEventsSureSet
For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.
George H. W. Bush
I AmStartTalkingNowEventsYears
Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
Wislawa Szymborska
BeginningBookEventsAlwaysOpen
The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly.
Harry Reasoner
NatureFlyAirplaneWillEvents
Truth is often a multiplicity of perspectives, and sometimes the more viewpoints and versions of events there are, the closer the reader gets to an overarching truth.
Susan Barker
TruthTruth IsSometimesMoreEvents
Memory as an article of faith often comes naturally to writers, who by temperament are likely to be diarists and record keepers, forever searching past events for elusive patterns - and forever believing that such patterns are to be found.
Dara Horn
FaithPastMemoryBelievingEvents
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.
Peter Morgan
WorkStoryYouDistanceEventsYour
The Elian events were shocking to Cubans because we were the fair-haired boys of the Cold War. The problem is, the Cold War ended.
Joe Garcia
WarColdProblemEventsCold War
The events of my twenties felt historic, but the people involved did not. I wanted a hero - someone who could make sense of what was happening around me and in some way redeem it.
Ben Rhodes
HeroPeopleMeSomeoneWayEvents
I replaced someone on 'Days of our Lives' once, and the fans hated me. She was a redhead, I was a brunette: they went nuts. Even at fan events, they were rude to me.
Shelley Hennig
MeSomeoneRudeEventsSheNuts
I love being part of campaigns and events that are working with kids and just sharing my personal experiences.
Jessica Ennis-Hill
LoveSharingPersonalEventsWorking
My memories of events and games are fragmented.
Zinedine Zidane
MemoriesGamesEventsFragmented
Dance should not just divide people into audience and performers. Everyone should be a participant, whether going to classes or attending special events or rehearsals.
Twyla Tharp
DancePeopleSpecialEventsAudience
When it's the caliber of fight that Canelo Alvarez and Liam Smith is, that's a big deal, and what I've tried to do since we built this stadium is have the great sport events.
Jerry Jones
GreatFightEventsBigStadiumDeal
I cap myself when I shop; I don't like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it's scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.
Taylor Swift
MyselfFeelClothesCapEventsWear
For a long time, I have been making many predictions, far in advance, of events since come to pass, naming the particular locality. I acknowledge all to have been accomplished through divine power and inspiration.
Nostradamus
PowerTimeLongLong TimeEvents
I conduct very few interviews with veterans. The contemporaneous, or near-contemporaneous, record for WWII is so spectacularly deep that latter-day recollections are largely unnecessary for a historian. Of course, in considering any account, I'm looking for additional sources that can confirm or enlarge that version of events.
Rick Atkinson
LookingDeepVeteransEventsCourse
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