Eavan Boland
Related When I was 15, I changed my name legally. I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay.... PORTIA DE ROSSI It was always a dream of mine. When I was in high school I used to write poems for my friends. And t... CYNTHIA VELENO It was always a dream of mine. When I was in high school I used to write poems for my friends. And t... CYNTHIA VELENO Anyone can learn how to communicate with animals if they are open to the process and willing to prac... KAREN A. ANDERSON LINDSEY STIRLING JACLYN SMITH He reminds me a lot of myself when I was young, ... Chris has a passion for cars and I think he'll f... FUNKMASTER FLEX EUGENE IONESCO The thing was, at a young age, my mom and my grandma always tried to keep me out of the streets as m... BIG SEAN TERRI WINDLING I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my ... JESMYN WARD OSCAR NIEMEYER When I say toxic, I mean it, because these sites are filled with heavy metals that cause nearby wate... JOHN DAWES TERRENCE MCNALLY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to ha... ALAN JACKSON JAMES PATTERSON Snake has been everything to me. Look at where I was when I started with the company in 1988 and whe... LARRY DIXON ERALDO BANOVAC SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE If everything in my life is going smoothly, then obviously I know I'm doing something wrong. Life wa... AMANDA FOOTE KATE FORSYTH IGOR STRAVINSKY GWEN STEFANI TOM HOLLAND MARGARET MITCHELL When I was really young, I shot a lot with my Super 8. DANNY HUSTON STEPHANIE KLEIN I was a terrible believer in things,but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as search... CHERYL STRAYED When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contac... J. M. G. LE CLEZIO MIKE BIRBIGLIA I dyed my hair red when I was ten and when I was 11 - in my goth period - I dyed it black and I was ... FLORENCE WELCH ANNE RICE For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novel... DAVID GRANN 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa... JAMES C. DOBSON JENSON BUTTON BENJAMIN WATSON Most times I pick my pen with the intention to write, I find out that I can't write much. Most of my... OLASOT RAIN CRAIG GROESCHEL BELA LUGOSI When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I... MARY MACLANE JOSEPHINE BAKER I tried to throw my breaking ball, but nothing seemed to work, so I was behind in the count a lot. A... FELIX HERNANDEZ CHRIS CORNELL When I was 13, I began relaxing my hair, and that meant when I turned 18 it began to crack and fall ... SOLEDAD O'BRIEN I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then I have tried to walk a Christi... ANDY GRIFFITH NICOLA ADAMS I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport. JON ANDERSON BETH HENLEY JOY HARJO TIG NOTARO I could make a martyrly claim to having been the victim of childhood enslavement when I report that ... ALICE DREGER JILLIAN HERVEY All my life, I never realized you could have a conversation with a ghost. POE BALLANTINE MATTHEW MODINE Harper, i love you more than I could ever explain. Meeting you changed my world. Even when I thought... MOLLY MCADAMS I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I c... ABRAHAM PAIS BENNY CASSETTE JULIE ANNE PETERS I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I wr... NEIL DIAMOND JESS GLYNNE As a teenage girl myself, I've gone through times in my life where I've felt insecure about ... KELLI BERGLUND CASEY WILSON DIANA GABALDON I have a son, but I've never had a daughter. I have a sister, and my sister had a fairly tempest... HOWARD JACOBSON With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I'd play for 20 minu... JOHN BONHAM SARAH DESSEN Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just... SPOKEN REASONS AMY ADAMS I'm basically here just to hold babies. I was at home folding laundry when I saw the news on TV, and... LISA STONE JOHN MILTON NATASHA TRETHEWEY NANCY SPROAT LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY CARRIE RYAN I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christ... ANDY GRIFFITH There was a point when I was very young where I remember talking with my mom about going to drama sc... CARMEN EJOGO IMTIAZ ALI I went to Niagara Falls with my family when I was young, and I cried because I thought it would be b... MERYL DAVIS I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, s... MARIEL HEMINGWAY MARGARET MITCHELL RICHARD YATES JESSICA ALBA When she sat, she crossed her hands and ankles perfectly. Yes, yes, everything was in the classroom.... MARY WORONOV I ask God to bind my life to your life so that my mind will be one with your mind," I repeat the wor... AMY A. BARTOL IMAN MICHAEL SUMMERS I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I c... ABRAHAM PAIS JEFFREY FRY I took my head up before I shot, and I knew exactly where I was going with the puck. It seemed that ... JOE CORVO ICE T This singularity of meaning--I was my face, I was ugliness--though sometimes unbearable, also offere... LUCY GREALY JACK OSBOURNE When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can&... DANIEL ALARCON I struggled quite a long time with my backhand, which was one of my best weapons before my surgery. ... MARCO CHIUDINELLI SCOTT DOUGLAS COLLEEN HOOVER My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holdin... PATRICIA HEATON I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English ... SALLY KIRKLAND
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My first play was written when I was 23, and I'm 66 now, so that's 43 years of doing this where I so... 
I give this heavy weight from off my head
And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand,
The pride of... 
I muttered a swear word to myself. After I heard Angel cussing like a sailor when she stubbed her to... 
I've tried to solve problems to the best of my knowledge. Many times I was successful, but sometimes... 
Life went a-Maying
With Nature, Hope, and Poesy;
When I was young!
When I was young?--Ah... 
I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I t... 
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connec... 
I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that... 
When I was young, my mom realized I could dance and hold a beat, and I really danced just for fun. I... 
Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan... 
I had no one to hold. What if this was my life, attending weddings, sitting in pews, listening to I ... 
When I was in college, I wanted to write for 'Late Night With Conan O'Brien,' and I was ... 
I got to the point where the vampire began describing his brother's death, and the whole thing just ... 
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I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. 
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You’re mine, mo duinne,” he said softly, pressing himself into my depths. “Mine alone, now and... 
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Ah, much deluded! lay aside
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Why be an ostrich? 
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When my daughter Zulekha was born, I was at the pinnacle of my working life as a model, and I pulled... 
I had a dream about you last night. I could fly. I was going to use this power to impress you, but y... 
Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person. 
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I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows o... 
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