Maeve Binchy Quotes
When my sister Joan arrived, I asked if I could swap her for a rabbit. When I think what a marvellous friend she's been, I'm so glad my parents didn't take me at my word.
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My mom teaches sixth grade and also taught first grade at one point. She's into dressing up and costumes and designing her own curriculum that way. She stayed home for about eight years with me and my sister when we were young before going back to teaching, so we had a lot of time with her. She taught us to read really early.
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I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
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Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.
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I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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A woman's body is her body and what she wears or does not wear is her choice. Get over it and move on.
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I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.
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When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.
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I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films.
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Any time you make more than a couple of friends at an event, I think that you actually made no friends.
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If you sing beautifully about nothing, no one will listen. If you sing badly about great stuff, no one will listen. Ideas are everywhere, but my theory is that a writer doesn't just think of an idea: they perform them.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.
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My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.
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Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer.
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I'm just an instant flirt with most people. I'm very cheeky.
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I would like to metamorphose into a mouse-mountain.
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If I can wake up everyday before I die and know that I don't have to serve anyone food or drinks, I will be happy!
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I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.
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When my sister Joan arrived, I asked if I could swap her for a rabbit. When I think what a marvellous friend she's been, I'm so glad my parents didn't take me at my word.
