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 love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
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We shot 'Oblivion' in Iceland; that was amazing. It's so, so beautiful. They didn't have any Waldorf Hotels there, though; we stayed in the middle of nowhere!
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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
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I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
