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The Irish are the niggers of Europe, lads.
Roddy Doyle
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Roddy Doyle
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 8
Lecturer
Novelist
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Screenwriter
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Dublin city
Ruaidhrí Ó Dúill
Ruaidhri O Duill
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Do be kind to yourself. Fill pages as quickly as possible double space, or write on every second line. Regard every new page as a small triumph. Until you get to page 50. Then calm down, and start worrying about the quality. Do feel anxiety - it's the job.
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When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, the - Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore, although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe.
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The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.
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When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.
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I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.
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My parents were sixty years married.
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If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing.
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When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.
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Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.
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