Maeve Binchy Quotes
I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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I don't feel closeted.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
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We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
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He would not anticipate those counsels which are rather bestowed by circumstances on men, than by men on circumstances.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
