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I hate desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework. Emma Donoghue

Me Hate Homework Feel Like Make Doing Child

I read three books a week. Emma Donoghue

Three Books Week Read

I love it when novels contain a broad cast of characters, including queer ones. Emma Donoghue

Love Broad Characters Cast Contain Queer Including Novels

Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer. Emma Donoghue

Politics You Group Writer Identity Go Any Want Speaking

My genuine belief is that if we can get through the eurozone crisis from a political point of view, we've got a lot of engines that can drive our economy, that will restore confidence and get us moving on. Enda Kenny

Emigration is always a difficulty. Enda Kenny

Difficulty Emigration Always

My wife, Fionnuala, and I have been married for more than 20 years. Enda Kenny

Wife Married More Been Years Than

One of the key drivers of Ireland's future is our balance of trade surplus. Enda Kenny

Future Balance Key Our Drivers Trade Surplus Ireland

For years, Ireland used to have a philosophy of 'Get them in here to invest and develop in Ireland, and this will sort out our problems.' It is good in the sense of building a trade surplus, but we also want to develop what it is that we offer ourselves and that Irish companies export abroad. Enda Kenny

Good Problems Will Building Sense Our Philosophy Ourselves Out Abroad Invest Develop Also Sort Trade Surplus Years Ireland Irish Offer Get Want Them Used Export Companies Here

You're not going to be able to deliver jobs locally unless you sort out the nation's problems, and that's why the big and difficult decisions about Ireland's economy have been so crucial and so difficult for people to have to accept and have to deal with, but the reality is the people gave this government an unprecedented mandate. Enda Kenny

Government You Reality People Problems Big Nation Difficult Gave Unless Locally Out Jobs Unprecedented Able About Crucial Deliver Economy Sort Accept Deal Been Ireland Going Mandate Decisions Why Difficult Decisions

The world has changed utterly. There was a time when you couldn't marry a Protestant. There was a time when you got married that the women had to give up their job in the public service, and when they got married, they were owned by their husbands. That's all changed. Enda Kenny

Rather than just saying, like, 'Your economy is the be all and end all,' I go back to my three roots that I've often said about this being best country for business, the best to raise a family in, and the best to grow old in with a sense of dignity and respect. Enda Kenny

Saying Best Family Business Respect Dignity Old Three Country Sense Back About Rather Like Economy Said Go End Than Often Just Being Roots Your Grow Raise

I enjoy his concerts and OK, maybe - I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't play the guitar, but I am going to go a long way if I keep following Springsteen. Enda Kenny

Guitar Dance Long Enjoy Way OK Following Long Way Sing Concerts Am Go Springsteen His Going Maybe Keep Play

Under no circumstances will I allow the Fianna Fail party back into government. They wrecked the economy twice. Enda Kenny

Government Will Party Back Circumstances Wrecked Allow Fail Economy Twice

No politician in a European sense is happy with 26 million people unemployed. Nobody can be happy with 6 to 9 million young people unemployed. You have to give them hope and confidence and a sense of inspiration that the European process is actually about people, not about bureaucracy. Enda Kenny

Hope You Confidence Be Happy Happy People Young Politician Sense About Give Inspiration Nobody Unemployed Bureaucracy Process Young People Them European Actually Million Million People

Conservation is important... water comes at a cost. Enda Kenny

Water Important Cost Conservation

I just think that the older you get, the more you appreciate the responsibility of politics. Enda Kenny

Politics You Responsibility Older Think More Get Just Appreciate

I don't like to see people on trolleys in hospitals; I don't like to see old people sitting in chairs for hours. Enda Kenny

People Old See Hospitals Like Hours Sitting Old People Chairs

What I do like is action, achievements, and results. Getting things done. Enda Kenny

Action Results Like Done Getting Achievements Things

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