Paddy Quotes

• As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

  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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• We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Children, Fighting, Play

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• Do you really believe that in the late 1800s Paddy Hannan would have walked 600 miles in the hot sun from Perth to Kalgoorlie to discover gold if he had to pay the Wayne Swan resource super tax?

  Clive Palmer

  Believe, Swans, Gold

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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

  Pigs

  "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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• With this recitation of paraphernalia and detritus, O'Brien manages to encapsulate the experience of an army and of a particular war, of a mined and booby-trapped landscape, of cold nights and hot days, of soaking monsoons and rice paddies, and of the possibility of being shot, like Ted Lavender, suddenly and out of nowhere: not only in the middle of a sentence but in the midst of a subordinate clause.

  Francine Prose

  War, Army, Night

  "Reading Like a Writer". Book by Francine Prose, 2006.

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• Do what you do. This Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's Eve, Twelfth Night, Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras, St. Paddy's Day, and every day henceforth. Just do what you do. Live out your life and your traditions on your own terms. If it offends others, so be it. That's their problem.

  Chris Rose

  New Year, Valentine, Night

  Chris Rose (2015). “1 Dead in Attic: 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, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time. (...) Dropping acid on the Mekong Delta, smoking grass through a rifle barrel, flying on a helicopter with opera blasting out of loudspeakers, tracer-fire and paddy-field scenery, the smell of napalm in the morning. Long time.

  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

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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