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How many Irishmen are there who would purchase material prosperity at such a price? It is exactly such a question as this and the answer to it that shows the difference between the English and Irish race. Nine Englishmen out of ten would jump to make the exchange, and I firmly believe that nine Irishmen out of ten would indignantly refuse it.


Douglas Hyde

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DAVID HYDE PIERCE You only have a week to do a show. I mean, there's only so deep you can dig in that week.
DAVID HYDE PIERCE I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for mor...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE I found every single laugh as Laertes that you can find and only realized later that you really shou...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE There's nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don't want to wat...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an ex...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE We must tell it to the world that the higher education is necessary to the best agriculture. We must...
LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY One’s happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY Those who write may think they know their target market. They may even feel they can shape the work ...
CATHERINE RYAN HYDE Sometime around 2006, I decided I had missed my true calling as a young adult author.
CATHERINE RYAN HYDE One of the nice things about publishing with Amazon is that the window for marketing is much longer ...
CATHERINE RYAN HYDE I really only have been seriously writing, finishing things and publishing things since January '...
CATHERINE RYAN HYDE If you can't pay it back, pay it forward.
CATHERINE RYAN HYDE I've always been ambidextrous, writing short stories and novels, and I pretty much have been wri...
CATHERINE RYAN HYDE If you want to see a man come to his senses, try something like, Do you happen to carry a rubber in ...
CATHERINE RYAN HYDE While the scars of the monstrous Civil War still remain, the wounds have closed since 1865, in large...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the gro...
TOMMY DOUGLAS I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
DOUGLAS ADAMS I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all o...
TOMMY DOUGLAS Every chef has his treats. By that, I mean bits and pieces from things you're working on - crust...
TOM DOUGLAS We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like thi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS God only knows what else is on the web about me.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had the...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and d...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I'm a huge poster collector.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS