"by the general love of scandal and detraction in Dublin, one might reasonably imagine they were all to feed themselves through the holes which they had made in the characters of others."

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Source : Laetitia Pilkington (1997). “Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington”, p.264, University of Georgia Press

Laetitia Pilkington

#Character Quotes #Gossip Quotes #Dublin Quotes

“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
“The early bird catches the worm.”
“I also have to be careful of what it says about women. I get a lot of scripts that only talk about women's appearances and what they look like. I think we're tired of having to meet this standard and not being asked what our talents or abilities are.”

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“If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly.”
“I'd dressed up and hoped and I was so tired of doing that, so tired of dreaming and being unable to stop it despite the fact that I'd seen, maybe better than anyone here, what dreams could do to you.”
“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!”
“If a religion is unpatriotic, it ain't right.”
“Whatever you say, say it with conviction”

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