Maeve Binchy Quotes

The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.

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• It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Energy
  • Purpose
  • Strength

• The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Time
  • Great
  • Same

• A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Nature
  • Way
  • Egg

• When you look at the roles I've done and the roles coming up, they're all strong. I guess I'm more drawn to that than that kind of submissive role females can be categorised as.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • Done
  • Strong

• Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Learn
  • Attitude
  • Questions

• I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Now And Then

• What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Great
  • Love
  • Energy

• I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • World
  • Die
  • Afraid

• I have saved $1,638,580 over my four years. That may not seem like a lot, faced with our deficit, but multiply it by 435 members of the House - and then the senators get three times as much - and you are adding up several millions in savings.

  

  Dan Webster
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  • May
  • House

• I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Star
  • Doing
  • Working

• I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Love
  • Travel
  • Been

• We were all so different, temperamentally from one another, it's impossible to believe that we were together for so long. The cast and crew. How could we be more different from one another? It's difficult to imagine. But something lovely came of it.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Long

• In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Mother
  • Bible
  • Drink

• Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Smart
  • Stubborn

• With the rights now in our loving hands, I'm beyond excited to bring 'The Green Hornet' into the 21st century in a meaningful and relevant way: modernizing it and making it accessible to a whole new generation. My intention is to bring a gravitas to 'The Green Hornet' that wipes away the camp and kitsch of the previous iteration.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Hands
  • Green
  • Generation

• I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.

  

  Dan Devine
  • Going
  • Head
  • Coach

• Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Want
  • You
  • Reach

• The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Food
  • Water
  • Cooking

• In a democracy, power is not permanent.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Power
  • Democracy
  • Permanent

• I think I'm always subconsciously trying to write the ideal school play. Lots of parts for everybody, great parts for women - don't forget, more girls try out than boys in the school play; everyone gets to be in the school play.

  

  Lin-Manuel Miranda
  • Great
  • Women
  • Trying

• 'Boomerang!' I love that movie just because of Halle Berry, Robin Givens, Eddie Murphy, Grace Jones and Eartha Kitt. There were so many characters. As an actress, to see African-American actors be so diverse was different from what I was used to seeing.

  

  Drew Sidora Jordan
  • Different
  • American
  • Movie

• A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself and to its present knowledge (and so knowable in some degree) but also separate from itself and from its present knowledge (not identical with these). In any act of thinking, the mind must reach across this space between known and unknown, linking one to the other but also keeping visible to difference. It is an erotic space.

  

  Anne Carson
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  • Thinking
  • Mind

• I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Work
  • Style
  • Challenge

• The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.

  

  Maeve Binchy
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  • Important
  • Story