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“As a child, the paddy field was my playground.”

Children Fields Playgrounds Paddy Paddy Field

Author:Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

“You have to remember the police used to raid and arrest the audience for seeing Scorpio Rising (1964), or Jack Smith movies. Wouldn't that be exciting today, if you see went to the movie and everyone at the IFC was arrested in a paddy wagon and taken away?”

Ifs Today Remember Used Audience Taken Seeing Exciting Police Rising Arrested Wagons Paddy Scorpios

Author:John Waters

“Irish as a Paddy's pig.”

Author:Eugene O'Neill

“Scots are Jocks,WelshmenTaffies, and Irishmen Paddies or Micks but?it is noticeable there is no similar designation for the English.”

Scots Jocks Irishmen Designation Paddy

Author:Anna Pavlova

“With this recitation of paraphernalia and detritus, O'Brien manages to encapsulate the experience of an army and of a particular war, of a mined and booby-trapped landscape, of cold nights and hot days, of soaking monsoons and rice paddies, and of the possibility of being shot, like Ted Lavender, suddenly and out of nowhere: not only in the middle of a sentence but in the midst of a subordinate clause.”

War Night Middle Possibility Particular Cold Shots Army Hot Sentences Manage Landscape Midst Trapped Rice Subordinates Clauses Soaking Lavender Hot Days Cold Night Monsoons Recitation Paddy

Author:Francine Prose

“Paddy Ashdown is the only party leader who's a trained killer. Although, to be fair, Mrs Thatcher was self taught.”

Self Party Leader Taught Fairs Killers Self Taught Mrs Thatcher Paddy

Author:Charles Kennedy

“The only thing worse than a crappy TV show which Paddy Chayevsky couldn't have conceived in his worst nightmare is two megacorps fighting over who thought of the crappy show first.”

Firsts Two Shows Fighting Worst Tvs Nightmare Tv Shows Worst Nightmares Paddy

Author:Judd Apatow

“Do you really believe that in the late 1800s Paddy Hannan would have walked 600 miles in the hot sun from Perth to Kalgoorlie to discover gold if he had to pay the Wayne Swan resource super tax?”

Ifs Believe Pay Sun Taxes Late Resources Gold Hot Miles Wayne Swans Hot Sun Paddy Perth

Author:Clive Palmer

“What has brought unique, irreplaceable me - out of all the possibilities of life-here, now, to this? Was all my youth-the paper route after school, the stolen moments in the back seats of borrowed cars, the football workouts, the cramming for finals-meant to end this way, dying in a muddy paddy?”

Way Ends Moments School Dying Car Possibility Youth Football Paper Unique Finals Seats Routes Workout Stolen Borrowed Muddy Irreplaceable After School Cramming Paddy

Author:William Broyles, Jr.

“If any Englishman said he has never called a Chinaman a chink he is lying. There is nothing bad about doing that. It is like calling the British Brits, or the Irish Paddies.”

Ifs Said Lying Calling British Englishmen Brits Chinks Paddy

Author:Dave Whelan

“Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV].”

Writing Tvs Paddy

Author:Gena Rowlands

“I got a part opposite Edward G. Robinson in a play called Middle of The Night, which Paddy Cheyafsky had written. It played for a long time because everybody just loved Edward G. Robinson, everybody in New York wanted to see it. John and I were married at the time and put into a position where I was working very long evening hours and he was working in the daytime and so there was a lot of spare time.”

Long Play Wanted Night Hours Written Middle New York Position Married Long Time Opposites Evening Spares Middle Of The Night Daytime Spare Time Paddy

Author:Gena Rowlands

“Do what you do. This Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's Eve, Twelfth Night, Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras, St. Paddy's Day, and every day henceforth. Just do what you do. Live out your life and your traditions on your own terms. If it offends others, so be it. That's their problem.”

Ifs Years Problem Night Term Tradition New Year Valentine Valentine's Day New Years Eve Hanukkah Kwanzaa Mardi Gras Paddy

Book:1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina

Source: 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina

“Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time. (...) Dropping acid on the Mekong Delta, smoking grass through a rifle barrel, flying on a helicopter with opera blasting out of loudspeakers, tracer-fire and paddy-field scenery, the smell of napalm in the morning. Long time.”

Long Night Morning Fire Love You Fields Long Time Smell Flying Grass Smoking Vietnam Opera All Night Dropping Acid Barrels Scenery Rifles Helicopters Delta Napalm Paddy Dropping Acid Paddy Field

Book:The Beach

Source: The Beach

“You can spread your soul over a paddy field, you can whisper to a mango tree, you can feel the earth between your toes and know that this is the place, the place where it begins and ends. But what can you tell to a pile of bricks? The bricks will not be moved (page 87).”

Knows Feels Soul Ends Earth Tree Fields Pages Moved Spread Your Soul Toes Bricks Paddy Paddy Field

Author:Monica Denise Brown

“Civilisation never dies, it may change, but it is eternal. Where the paddy field is born on the dry river bed of Titash, there begins another civilisation.”

May Dies Born Fields Bed Eternal Rivers Dry Civilisation Paddy Paddy Field

Author:Ritwik Ghatak

“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"”

Said Humor Funny Black Rooms Comedy Baby Delivery Midwife Paddy Delivery Room

Author:Billy Connolly

“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.”

People Children Play Fighting Fields Bird Fishes Paddy Paddy Field

Author:Abdullah Ahmad Badawi