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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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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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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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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You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.
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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
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I don't take myself too seriously.
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Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they're full of muscle. 'Copacabana' sounds like it could have been released yesterday.
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I can't tell you how lucky I feel to be able to collaborate with some of my dream producers.
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While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.
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Groupon's model: Getting the group discount rate first, finding the group second. The daily deal goes out and, if a minimum number of people sign up, they can all share in the group rate. Vendor gets customers, customers get a discount, Groupon gets a cut.
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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.'
