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- John McGovern taught me that it's OK to write repeatedly about the same things.
- I said that when I looked at photographs of the firefighters who went into the Twin Towers, their faces looked to me like Irish faces.…
- I went to live in Barcelona in 1975, when I was twenty. Even before I went there, I knew more about the Spanish Civil War…
- I've never put Northern Ireland into a novel because it's not my territory. I come from the South, so my imaginative territory is very much…
- It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the…
- I feel just fine about ignoring or bypassing the rights of people I have known and loved to be rendered faithfully, or to be left…
- I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were not mine. I…
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- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not… — Kevyn Aucoin
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong