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I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan. -- Rick Allen
Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick. -- Samuel Beckett
Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well. -- Bonnie Tyler
Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air. -- Patricia Cornwell
The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin. -- Gerry Adams
I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if I had a mohican. -- Roddy Doyle
It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time. -- Roddy Doyle
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance. -- Queen Elizabeth II
I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation. -- Gabriel Byrne
As a kid growing up in the back streets of Dublin I used to pretend I was playing in the World Cup with my mates out on the streets, and now I will be doing it for real. -- Robbie Keane
I live in Dublin, God knows why. There are greatly more congenial places I could have settled in - Italy, France, Manhattan - but I like the climate here, and Irish light seems to be essential for me and for my writing. -- John Banville
When I die Dublin will be written in my heart. -- James Joyce
When I die Dublin will be written on my heart. -- James Joyce
My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community. -- Colin Farrell
I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin. -- Greta Scacchi
I sure love Ireland. The first trip I ever made was last year when I did this record in Dublin. -- Michael W. Smith
After I graduated from college, while traveling around Europe, hitchhiking, doing the tourist thing, I went into a church in Dublin. -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of new friends. -- Ron Wood
I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of new friends. -- Ron Wood
When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water. -- Caitriona Balfe
I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book. -- James Joyce
I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place. -- Harold Prince
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. -- Brendan Behan
When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me? -- J.P. Donleavy
When I come home, I say I'm coming home to Dublin. When I'm in Dublin, I say I'm going home to New York. I'm sort of a man of two countries. -- Colum McCann
But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture. -- Hugh Dancy
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. -- Laetitia Pilkington
It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was a good environment for an aspiring writer, with lots of events and authors appearing. -- John Boyne
We've done shows - we'll be in Dublin, and it will be nonstop pandemonium to the point where you think the crowd is going to implode, because they're making so much noise and they're so excited. -- Lupe Fiasco
For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal. -- James Joyce
If you're from Dublin, for example, chances are you live with your family, if you're lucky enough to, right up to the mid-20s. And most of the people I know, when they finally sort of set off on their own, they don't stray all that far. -- Roddy Doyle
Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub. -- James Joyce
I am at home in Dublin, more than in any other city. -- Louis MacNeice
If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin. -- Ray Bradbury
...I live in Ireland every day in a drizzly dream of a Dublin walk... -- John Geddes
You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished. -- Bill Bailey
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Dublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath. -- Derek Landy
I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that. -- Aidan Turner
Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin? -- Mark Twain
I've only been to Dublin once, and I had a great time. I got completely soaked because it was rainy. -- Jodie Foster
I don't think I've actually drunk a beer for 15 years, except a few Guinnesses in Dublin, where it's the law. -- Ian Botham
When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. -- J.P. Donleavy
There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin. -- James Joyce
Wanderers, Dublin's oldest rugby club, has been described more than once as the club of the Church and the Army: the wags added -- Gemma Hussey
I don't think America has ever had a center the way London is the center of England or Dublin is the center of Ireland. -- Richard Russo
James Joyce wrote the definitive work about Dublin while he was living in Switzerland. We're all where we come from. We all have our roots. -- John Guare
England was never my home. I had a home there but Dublin is my home so leaving Ireland was the hardest thing I had to do. -- Kevin Kilbane
Food in Dublin has gotten immeasurably better than it was. When I was a kid, there weren't a lot of options. Now you're overwhelmed with options. -- James Vincent McMorrow
Dublin was hardly worried by the war; her old preoccupations were still preoccupations. The intelligentsia continued their parties; their mutual malice was as effervescent as ever. -- Louis MacNeice
When's the last time you walked by a pub in Dublin and heard Irish music? When's the last time you ordered a coffee and heard an Irish accent? -- Michael Flatley
Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your friends settle down and have kids. Nothing much happens here. -- Colm Toibin
The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America. -- Lady Gregory
If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain. -- James Connolly
RyanAir have been getting a hard time because they've launched a Â£7 flight to New York. Although as always with RyanAir it does land slightly outside of New York. In Dublin. -- Frankie Boyle
My first song was about the smog over Dublin in the 1980s, so yeah, I suppose I was always socially conscious. My first song was not a love song, it was about smog. -- Damien Dempsey
Well, playing a guy who writes songs and busks on Grafton Street in Dublin and falls in love with Marketa Irglova wasn't very difficult for me. There was very little acting going on. -- Glen Hansard
I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver. -- Barry Humphries
250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day. -- Barry McGuigan
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Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don't realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work, and they look down on people who do. -- Martin McDonagh
We in Ireland are gifted beyond most peoples with a talent for acting, and in Dublin especially, while scorning culture, which indeed we have not got, we are possessed of a most futile and diverting cleverness. -- Susan Mitchell
The joy of the new, hip, happening, double-espresso Dublin is that you can blame any strange mood on coffee deprivation. This never worked in the era of tea, at least not at the same level of street cred. -- Tana French
I suspect that the only thing that will take Articles Two and Three out of the Irish Constitution is when the bombs begin to blow in Dublin in the way that they have been in Belfast and in London. -- Norman Tebbit
Cadiz is a city of magic, like Cracow or Dublin, to set the mind on fire at a turn of a corner. ... The eye is continually fed, the imagination stirred, by a train of spectacles as charming as if they had been contrived. -- Honor Tracy
I was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland and it is still home to me. My writing has taken me all over the world, but this is the place I come back to and the place where I find it easiest to write. -- Michael Scott
There's a ruthlessness to the city now that wasn't there before. I was in Dublin a few months ago, when we were shooting Breakfast on Pluto, and if I saw one kid throwing up on the street, I must have seen a hundred of them. -- Liam Neeson
I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic. -- Patrick Kavanagh
You say fate is almost indispensable to literature - I think it's completely indispensable, at least in a novel, because a novel always has a plot. Even if nothing happens, even if someone just spends a day walking around Dublin, or whatever, there's still something going on. -- Daniel Kehlmann
What's fascinating is where they come from in the world. People in Bangladesh, a chap in a fire-base in Tikrit in Iraq. Chap in an Irish pub in Dublin. And lovely to think this literary network - or rather network of readers - is well spread out. -- John Gimlette
After high school, I went to Stanford University and majored in English. Of course, that gave me a chance to do lots more reading and writing. I also received degrees in London and Dublin - where I moved to be near a charming Irishman who became my husband! -- Linda Sue Park
For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to all sorts of incidents that, if taken together, add up to a war - bombings, assassinations, riots, shootings, robberies, jailbreaks, kidnappings, and sieges. -- Frank Delaney
The White House was designed by Hoban, a noted Irish-American architect, and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait, but I appreciate his efforts. -- John F. Kennedy
Old Dublin City there is no doubtin' Bates every city upon the say. 'Tis there you'd hear O'Connell spoutin' And Lady Morgan making tay. For 'tis the capital of the finest nation, With charmin' pisintry upon a fruitful sod, Fightin' like devils for conciliation, And hatin' each other for the Love of God. -- Charles Lever
My dad moved to London in his early 20s and didn't really go back. So the irony is I've spent lots and lots of time in Ireland, but not with my dad. I've shot films in Belfast, where he's from. And I've shot in Dun Laoghaire. Which is great. And I've shot in Dublin. -- Imogen Poots
I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there. -- Ed Sheeran
My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out; it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
I always went to Ireland as a child. I remember trips to Dundalk, Wexford, Cork and Dublin. My gran was born in Dublin, and we had a lot of Irish friends, so we'd stay on their farms and go fishing. They were fantastic holidays - being outdoors all day and coming home to a really warm welcome in the evenings. -- Vinnie Jones
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My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live in what is now called Fashionable Dublin Four. But she felt that this was a vain hope. I was a bit loud to make a nice professional wife, and anyway, I was too keen on spending my holidays in far flung places to meet any of these people. -- Maeve Binchy

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