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Quotes About Paddy

Acting's fine if the script's written by Paddy Chayefsky and Martin Scorsese directs it, but unless you have something like that, I don't really enjoy acting.
~ Jeff Garlin
I watch 'Take Me Out' mainly for Paddy McGuinness. When we were younger, we worked together as lifeguards at the Bolton Leisure Centre.
~ Maxine Peake
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
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
~ Paddy Ashdown
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
Paddy explained his increasingly wild behaviour as 'A bookish attempt to coerce life into a closer resemblance to literature'
~ Artemis Cooper
Paddy, acting as security, loitered
~ Ruth Hamilton
You love the Pope, don't you, Paddy?" Tom is staring at me. "Why, I do not know," I say, surprised into honesty. "I hardly know about him. Only he did not send help to us when we were hungry at home. Perhaps he did not know.
~ Jonatha Ceely
I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
~ Paddy Ashdown
Paddy asks me, smiling
~ Cathy Cassidy
I think you can tell just how much fun we're going to have making 'Top Gear' with Paddy and Freddie. They're both brilliant, natural entertainers - and their mischief mixed with the most exciting cars on the planet is sure to take the show to the next level.
~ Chris Harris
You're gonna really scare them grown-ups, Paddy,' said Achilleus. 'They'll be filling their nappies in fright.
~ Charlie Higson
During the time at home, Chris focused on a peculiar story he'd first heard years before. An elderly friend had asked him to trim some of her overgrown trees, and as a thank-you she'd given Chris a book about the strange adventures of Patrick Leigh Fermor, known to everyone as Paddy. Paddy was Chris's kind of adventurer—gallant, literary, madcap, merry. Chris dug around for more and soon learned about Paddy's daffy scheme to kidnap a German general.
~ Christopher McDougall
What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
~ Paddy Ashdown
Paddy is untall. Paddy hates the term "short" with a passion most folks reserve for the tax man. His distaste for the tax man exceeds known measurement.
~ Unknown
The whip shouldn't have been more than a gnat for Paddy," Bishon Singh told me. "What do you mean?" "What is a whip to a lion? He must have been ready to let you go. Or perhaps you weren't ever meant for him." I
~ Paula McLain