Derry Quotes

• On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew.

  Stephen King

  Air, Smell, Church

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• I started after him...and the clown looked back. I saw Its eyes, and all at once I understood who It was." "Who was it, Don?" Harold Gardner asked softly. "It was Derry," Don Hagarty said. "It was this town.

  Stephen King

  Eye, Saws, Towns

  "It: A Novel". Book by Stephen King, September 5, 2017.

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• The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well. I do not know where it finally fetched up, if it ever did; perhaps it reached the sea and sails there forever, like a magic boat in a fairytale. All I know is that it was still afloat and still running on the breast of the flood when it passed the incorporated town limits of Derry, Maine, and there it passes out of this tale forever.

  Stephen King

  Running, Brother, Sea

  "It". Book by Stephen King, 1986.

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• I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.

  John Hume

  Example, Discrimination, Grew Up

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

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• The best set was probably 'Bloody Sunday.' We had no money for extras and gambled on months of outreach to persuade the people of Derry to turn out and march for us on one single afternoon. And they did. In their tens of thousands. Seeing them march, their patience and their dignity and their commitment, I knew the movie would have a quality of truth.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Commitment, Sunday, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I'll tell you what, it doesn't get more beautiful than the west of Ireland. Connemara and County Derry are quite stunning, really.

  Matthew William Goode

  Beautiful, West, Stunning

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.

  Damian McGinty

  Hollywood, Broadway, Littles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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