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On my Wikipedia page, it used to say I was born in Belfast, Ireland, then it said Belfast, Northern Ireland, and then it said Belfast, U.K. So there was a little war going on about where Belfast is located.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: About Belfast Born Going Ireland Little Located Northern Northern Ireland Page Said Say Then Used War Where Wikipedia I Was Born

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I think the poetry that came out of Belfast, and especially the Queen's University set, in the 1970s and '80s - you know, Paul Muldoon and Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Ciaran Carson - that was probably the finest body of work since the Gaelic renaissance, up there with the work of Yeats and Synge and Lady Gregory.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: Belfast Body Came Finest Know Lady Out Paul Poetry Queen Renaissance Set Since Think University Up Work You I Think 1970S

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Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world.

~Clive Owen

Topics: Belfast Different Different World Like Looked Troubles World

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My mom's half-Irish, and my dad's half-Irish. We don't know much about my mom's side, but my dad's mom came from Belfast and married my grandfather, who was from Wales.

~Coco Rocha

Topics: About Belfast Came Dad Grandfather Know Married Mom Much Side Wales Who

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I started to watch 'Play for Today' and plays like 'Cathy Come Home,' and Kenneth Branagh's 'Billy' trilogy in the 1980s, which took us into the world of the Belfast family. As a kid in Luton, how was I ever going to know that world otherwise?

~Colin Salmon

Topics: Belfast Billy Come Ever Family Going Home How Kenneth Kid Know Like Otherwise Play Plays Started Today Took Trilogy Us Watch Which World 1980S

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My father was from Belfast; my mother was from Crossmolina. I grew up in Dublin.

~Colm Wilkinson

Topics: Belfast Dublin Father Grew Mother Up

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We do have pictures on the wall, in our office in Belfast where we spend half our time. All the head shots are on the wall. So yeah, we just throw darts at the ones we don't want anymore.

~D. B. Weiss

Topics: Anymore Belfast Darts Half Head Just Office Our Our Time Pictures Shots Spend Throw Time Wall Want Where Yeah

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Jason Momoa became a really good friend of ours when he played Khal Drogo. We loved hanging out with Momoa, and suddenly we couldn't bring him to Belfast anymore.

~D. B. Weiss

Topics: Anymore Became Belfast Bring Friend Good Good Friend Hanging He Him Jason Loved Ours Out Played Really Suddenly

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When I play discos in Belfast or freshers' week in Oxford, there are 1,800 kids dressed as me. It's odd, it's funny, and it pays really well.

~David Hasselhoff

Topics: Belfast Dressed Funny Kids Me Odd Oxford Pays Play Really Week Well

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If Israel does not find the way to disengage from the Palestinians, its future might resemble the experience of Belfast or Bosnia - two communities bleeding each other to death for generations.

~Ehud Barak

Topics: Belfast Bleeding Bosnia Communities Death Does Each Experience Find Future Generations Israel Might Other Palestinians Resemble Two Way

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