Maeve Binchy Quotes
I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'
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I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?
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When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
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I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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What a publication can do is to help people get a clearer picture without jumping to any rash conclusion. I'm very happy that the 'Post' can take the responsibility to report on China in a broader and deeper way. I believe the 'Post' must be fair to our readers. We should let our readers see China from more angles and perspectives.
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The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
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I didn't know what was going through my mind.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'
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Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.
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My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'
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I have a really hard time finding good denim.
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Let me make this very clear: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, our digital exhaust is being sucked up by the government. It is being compiled on big server farms and it's being analyzed by different computer programs, looking for any hint that you and I are up to no good.
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I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.
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I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
