Maeve Binchy Quotes
If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
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I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.
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You are just your intelligence.
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In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
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When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
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For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for and behave in the initial chaos of a mass-casualty event.
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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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Value is what you get.
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I was an avid tomboy, and as long as I could ride my bike just as fast, hit the ball just as hard, and catch just as many garter snakes, I was accepted as one of the boys and enjoyed all the perks of superiority.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
