Maeve Binchy Quotes
All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.
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I can't wait to get my face lifted but my husband says, 'No, don't do it.' I think if it makes you feel better, go for it, but it would be nice if it looked good. There are a lot of people out there who are disasters and you think, 'Why did you do that?'
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How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.
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I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.
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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
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My two great loves are music and horses.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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100,000 soldiers are reported to have died in the Iraqi war. If you count 100 relatives of each soldier, it means that practically there are millions of people who now have antagonism toward the white people of America. These Arab people will remember this country whose main religion is Christianity, who came and destroyed all Iraqi facilities and industry. They won't easily forget this.
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Nothing is forever, and I do still talk about when I'll come back to Britain. I'd love to come back and do a nice big juicy period drama. I don't understand it when people suddenly turn their back on Britain or Scotland. I'm so aware of it, and it's so much a part of who I am.
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It's hard to live up to The Beatles. When Wings toured, they got slated. Even Dad found it hard living up to The Beatles. I started out playing under an alias because I wanted to start quietly.
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All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
