"My dad plays the fiddle. He stopped playing for years. He was playing when I was a baby, and then he stopped for about five years, or ten years, he says. Then all of a sudden he started playing again, and we all got interested. We started having people like CiarÃ¡n Tourish coming up to the house, and Dinny McLaughlin, who taught CiarÃ¡n, and who taught myself as well. And it just grew from that"

-- Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh

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“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.”
“Sometimes there are painters or very famous artists who start to become artists after they are dead because an audience or a public know about their art after they die.”
“Commies love concrete.”
“DOLCE & Gabbana is like my and Domenico Dolce's child. The editing of a collection before a show is a tough call, as we would like to show everything!”
“The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.”
“The idea of being on television is to wear your T-shirt so people see it and maybe buy it.”
“What other people think of us usually has very little to do with who we are. It has a lot more to do with the other individuals' issues-their prejudices, their fears, and projections. So it is a waste of time to constantly try to impress or please others.”

Source : Beverly Engel (2011). “AARP The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused--and Start Standing Up for Yourself”, p.58, John Wiley & Sons
“Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.”

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