Paddy Quotes

• De niño, el arrozal era mi patio de recreo.

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Children, Fields, Playgrounds

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• You can spread your soul over a paddy field, you can whisper to a mango tree, you can feel the earth between your toes and know that this is the place, the place where it begins and ends. But what can you tell to a pile of bricks? The bricks will not be moved (page 87).

  Monica Denise Brown

  Tree, Soul, Fields

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• Civilisation never dies, it may change, but it is eternal. Where the paddy field is born on the dry river bed of Titash, there begins another civilisation.

  Ritwik Ghatak

  Rivers, Bed, Dry

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• Vamos a pescar, también pescamos peces luchadores, buscamos pájaros y era para la gente de los kampong, el arrozal era nuestro campo de juego para los niños.

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Children, Fighting, Play

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• ¿De verdad cree que a finales del siglo XIX Paddy Hannan habría caminado 600 millas bajo el sol abrasador desde Perth hasta Kalgoorlie para descubrir oro si hubiera tenido que pagar el superimpuesto sobre los recursos de Wayne Swan?

  Clive Palmer

  Believe, Cisnes, Oro

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• Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. "Is this yours?" she asked "probably" said Paddy "she burns everything else"

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Baby, Humor

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• Irish as a Paddy's pig.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Cerdos

  "The Straw". Book by Eugene O'Neill, Act 1, Scene 2, 1919.

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• Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV].

  Gena Rowlands

  Writing, Tvs

  Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 13, 2016.

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• If any Englishman said he has never called a Chinaman a chink he is lying. There is nothing bad about doing that. It is like calling the British Brits, or the Irish Paddies.

  Dave Whelan

  Lying, Calling, British

  "Forfeit Whelan's donations over 'antisemitic' comments, says Labour" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2014.

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• I got a part opposite Edward G. Robinson in a play called Middle of The Night, which Paddy Cheyafsky had written. It played for a long time because everybody just loved Edward G. Robinson, everybody in New York wanted to see it. John and I were married at the time and put into a position where I was working very long evening hours and he was working in the daytime and so there was a lot of spare time.

  Gena Rowlands

  New York, Night, Opposites

  Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 13, 2016.

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• Paddy Ashdown is the only party leader who's a trained killer. Although, to be fair, Mrs Thatcher was self taught.

  Charles Kennedy

  Party, Self, Leader

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• The only thing worse than a crappy TV show which Paddy Chayevsky couldn't have conceived in his worst nightmare is two megacorps fighting over who thought of the crappy show first.

  Judd Apatow

  Fighting, Tv Shows, Two

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• Con esta recitación de parafernalia y detritus, O'Brien consigue encapsular la experiencia de un ejército y de una guerra en particular, de un paisaje minado y lleno de trampas explosivas, de noches frías y días calurosos, de monzones y arrozales empapados, y de la posibilidad de ser abatido, como Ted Lavender, de repente y de la nada: no sólo en medio de una frase, sino en medio de una cláusula subordinada.

  Francine Prose

  Guerra, Ejército, Noche

  "Leer como un escritor". Libro de Francine Prose, 2006.

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• Haga lo que haga Esta Navidad, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Nochevieja, Noche de Reyes, San Valentín, Mardi Gras, St. Paddy's Day, y todos los días que vengan a partir de ahora. Haz lo que haces. Vive tu vida y tus tradiciones a tu manera. Si ofende a los demás, que así sea. Ese es su problema.

  Chris Rose

  New Year, San Valentín, Noche

  Chris Rose (2015). "Un muerto en el ático: After Katrina", p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• What has brought unique, irreplaceable me - out of all the possibilities of life-here, now, to this? Was all my youth-the paper route after school, the stolen moments in the back seats of borrowed cars, the football workouts, the cramming for finals-meant to end this way, dying in a muddy paddy?

  William Broyles, Jr.

  Football, Workout, School

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• Vietnam, te amo desde hace mucho tiempo. Todo el día, toda la noche, te quiero mucho tiempo. (...) Arrojar ácido en el delta del Mekong, fumar hierba a través del cañón de un fusil, volar en helicóptero con la ópera a todo volumen por los altavoces, fuego trazador y paisajes de arrozales, el olor a napalm por la mañana. Mucho tiempo.

  Alex Garland

  Morning, Love You, Night

  Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.8, Penguin

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• Scots are Jocks,WelshmenTaffies, and Irishmen Paddies or Micks but?it is noticeable there is no similar designation for the English.

  Anna Pavlova

  Jocks, Scots, Irishmen

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• You have to remember the police used to raid and arrest the audience for seeing Scorpio Rising (1964), or Jack Smith movies. Wouldn't that be exciting today, if you see went to the movie and everyone at the IFC was arrested in a paddy wagon and taken away?

  John Waters

  Taken, Scorpios, Police

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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