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"I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs."
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"Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other."
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"It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish."
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"My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally."
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"France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside."
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"Ireland sober is Ireland stiff."
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"The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet."
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"When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do."
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"The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine."
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"I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual."
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"Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes."
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"Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone."
Family
"And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then."
Childhood
"The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law."
Nation
"And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics."
Childhood
"The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math."
Writing
"I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office."
Childhood
"You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply."
Life
"If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded."
Want
"So if you're a robot and you're living on this planet, you can do things that you can't do in real life - things that you wished you could do: like fly; like have a car that flies; like have furniture that is alive."
Life
"I just took the idea that King Kong was too big for everything and reversed it and put George in a land of giants, which is basically what every kid goes through anyway - that, you know, the world is made for grownups, for tall people, for the giants."
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