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We are a gutted generation, born in the depression and obsessed with prosperity. — Paddy Chayefsky

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

Great Paddy Shits in the Mornin', Elora! He's a vampire! No' a stray dog! — Victoria Danann

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

The poor teachers! Trained in the traditional sciences, they were totally lost when trying to teach us about pigs or paddy fields. — Ji-li Jiang

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero. — Paddy Chayefsky

It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results. — Paddy Ashdown

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

I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads. — Paddy Ashdown

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

semiotics tells us things we already know in a language we will never understand' (Paddy Whannel, cited in Seiter 1992, 31). — Anonymous

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

What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party. — Paddy Ashdown

the only man in modern history to successfully kidnap a commanding general. Paddy — Christopher McDougall

I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots. — Paddy Ashdown

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

A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him. — Paddy Considine

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

Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here. — Paddy Mitchell

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 have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war. — Paddy Ashdown

We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived ... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing! — Paddy Chayefsky

I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No. — Paddy Ashdown

You're gonna really scare them grown-ups, Paddy,' said Achilleus. 'They'll be filling their nappies in fright. — Charlie Higson

Paddy was just one of many wanderers on strange, lonely quests, striking out on mysterious missions, most of whom had left no traces. — Nick Hunt

I'm a man without a corporation. — Paddy Chayefsky

People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much. — Paddy Considine

I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me. — Paddy Considine