Quotes by irish authors

There's a lot of Doyle in me. I don't know where I begin and Doyle ends or where Doyle begins and I end. Glenn Quinn

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I don't think I've got bad taste. I've got no taste. Graham Norton

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I bet Maurice Gibb's heart monitor was singing the tune of Stayin' Alive. Graham Norton

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A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them. Graham Norton

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I am very quick to judge. Graham Norton

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Forty freaked me out. I didn't see it coming. My life was in a state of chaos - I was moving jobs and moving house - and it just hit me like a ton of bricks. Graham Norton

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I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship. Graham Norton

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If it was possible for me to adopt, I probably would, but no one's going to let me adopt. Graham Norton

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I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything. Graham Norton

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I'd like to retire at 50 but I don't want to sell papers in the middle of London on a Zimmer. Graham Norton

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I am really bad at actually interviewing people. Graham Norton

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Tolerance is forced on people in London. Graham Norton

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I've heard other gay people say when they were growing up they felt 'foreign.' Growing up, I was able to label these feelings as: 'I'm a Protestant.' It wasn't until I left, I thought: 'Oh, those weren't Protestant feelings.' Graham Norton

I don't think anyone wants to be gay. Graham Norton

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I am camp. Lots of gay men can't cope with their campness. They are in denial about it. Graham Norton

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An awful lot of female celebrities are very beautiful whereas a lot of male celebrities are not so hot. Graham Norton

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All my interesting stories are from before I was on television. Nothing interesting has happened to me since then. Maybe it's because the most interesting thing in my life is the show and that's on telly. Graham Norton

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I loved working on 'Thomas & Friends.' That's an iconic show, and that thing is, like, a billion-dollar property. But content-wise, yep, if you're not into steam trains and preschool storytelling, it can get a little wearing after years of it. Greg Tiernan

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I didn't even have that many close LGBT friends or anything like that, but I suppose it was growing up and becoming aware of how you are in a cultural landscape that is blatantly homophobic... you turn around and say, 'Why did I grow up in a homophobic place? Why did I grow up in a misogynistic place?' Hozier

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I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats, who captured a lot of that very beautifully. Hozier

One of my first festivals was Oxygen 2006. It had this amazing lineup with the Arctic Monkeys on their first or second album, the Strokes, Kings of Leon, the Magic Numbers and then the Who and James Brown. I waited in the pit for a good eight hours to see James Brown. Hozier

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