Paddy Quotes
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Paddy Quotes & Sayings
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This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings
— Paddy Chayefsky
Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park.
— Paddy Chayefsky
The safest day at the Melody is St. Paddy's," adds another Mardi Gras girl. "All the cops are out vomiting at the parade.
— Josh Alan Friedman
He brightened. "Are you Irish then?""My last name is McNally. I'm as Irish as Paddy's pig. — Ashlyn Chase
In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.
— Paddy Ashdown
Irish as a Paddy's pig.
— Eugene O'Neill
We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.
— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.
— Paddy Considine
Don't expect life to be fair an', Paddy, for God's sake, don't ever give all yer love to just one thing.
— Cindy Brandner
You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.
— Paddy Chayefsky
The best thing that can happen is for the theme to be nice and clear from the beginning.
— Paddy Chayefsky
Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.
— Paddy Considine
Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git.
— Paddy Ashdown
I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
— Paddy Ashdown
I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.
— Paddy Chayefsky
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
— Paddy Ashdown
God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.
— Paddy Chayefsky
You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
— Paddy Chayefsky
Ye're about as Irish as a plastic paddy
— A. Zavarelli
Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.
— Paddy Ashdown
Television is democracy at its ugliest.
— Paddy Chayefsky
Americans don't want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.
— Paddy Chayefsky
Paddy Eagan, stay away from falling signs for a bit and you'll be as right as rain come the weekend.
— Elizabeth C. Bunce
The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.
— Paddy Chayefsky
Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV].
— Gena Rowlands
It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
— Paddy Ashdown
The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor!
— Paddy Chayefsky
As a child, the paddy field was my playground.
— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.
— Paddy Chayefsky
Oh sod me, Sir, not another bloody Paddy. Even a Brummie is better than another Paddy.
— Jim McGrath
Coalition will come sooner or later, I'm certain of that.
— Paddy Ashdown
I don't want to leave you alone. I want you to get mad.[ ... ]You've got to say 'I'm a human being, god dammit! My life has value!
— Paddy Chayefsky
Don't think of it as art, think of it as work.
— Paddy Chayefsky
I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.
— Paddy Considine
I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
— Paddy Ashdown
I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.
— Paddy Chayefsky
Television will do anything for a rating ... anything!
— Paddy Chayefsky
Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. "Is this yours?" she asked "probably" said Paddy "she burns everything else"
— Billy Connolly
You're not such a dog as you think you are.
— Paddy Chayefsky
I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
— Paddy Ashdown
the only man in modern history to successfully kidnap a commanding general. Paddy
— Christopher McDougall
You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
— Paddy Considine
The first thing I did with the prize money was to buy a paddy field for Apa. He would no longer be a landless farmer in an agricultural society.
— M.C. Mary Kom
Politics is compromise.
— Paddy Ashdown
People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.
— Paddy Ashdown
There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.
— Paddy Ashdown
The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.
— Paddy Ashdown
I know victims of domestic abuse. I know what it takes for people to get out, and I also know why people stay. It's heartbreaking.
— Paddy Considine
Scots are Jocks,WelshmenTaffies, and Irishmen Paddies or Micks but?it is noticeable there is no similar designation for the English.
— Anna Pavlova
Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.
— Paddy Chayefsky
Crazy,' says Paddy Mayne, 'is our business.
— Steven Pressfield
Paddy Ashdown is the only party leader who's a trained killer. Although, to be fair, Mrs Thatcher was self taught.
— Charles Kennedy
We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived ... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!
— Paddy Chayefsky
You're gonna really scare them grown-ups, Paddy,' said Achilleus. 'They'll be filling their nappies in fright.
— Charlie Higson
I'm a man without a corporation.
— Paddy Chayefsky
