"I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this."

-- Anne Enright

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Construction Quotes

“After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.”
“To lose a child ... was something that could end one's world. One could never get back to how it was before. The stars went out. The moon disappeared. The birds became silent.”
“A lot of people wonder how you can tell if you're really in love. Just ask yourself this question: 'Would I mind being financially destroyed by this person?'”
“In the '70s, the gay movement was really making strides. Huge strides. And then AIDS came along and slapped a judgment on it all and the Right Wing religious movement was like, 'See. This is why, we told you.' And it pushed back the movement 30 years.”

Source : "Mario Cantone on His First San Francisco Stint" by Greg Archer, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2010.
“Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life, and people do not wish to waste their lives once they've seen New York! This rural American thing - I'm telling you, it's a joke,”
“I think the musical evolution I've gone through has come from all the work with the material.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.”
“Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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