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That's what the holidays are for – for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?

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Lara Flynn Boyle
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Category: Saint Patricks Day

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
  • 2. We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough.
  • 3. I can't look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can't. I'd rather age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.
  • 2. It's amazing to me that in the 42 years since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law women today still receive fewer wages than men for the same work.
  • 3. If you ever have the good fortune to meet Tippi Hedren she's an amazing woman. You can't quite believe she is the age she is.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
  • 2. As the plane got closer to Miami I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger panic despair and helplessness.
  • 3. In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad who was very racist didn't like that at all. And he told her one time 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'

4 Anniversary

  • 1. See the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it the bitter honesty is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody – 'You must live life this way' – and these guys were bored.
  • 2. Actually the year anniversary of what you just heard my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.
  • 3. I've been sober for two-and-a-half years My children are happy. In August my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture and the language that we use about politics it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.
  • 2. Buildings should serve people not the other way around.
  • 3. Every one who has a heart however ignorant of architecture he may be feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
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