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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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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The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some might take a bit longer.
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I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.
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Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.
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We need not only an executive to make international law, but we need the military forces to enforce that law and the judicial system to bring the criminals to justice before they have the opportunity to build military forces that use these horrid weapons that rogue nations and movements can get hold of - germs and atomic weapons.
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Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
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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.'
