Maeve Binchy Quotes
If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?
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I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
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I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.
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If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.
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I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
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You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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I came from somewhat of a musical family. I had an uncle on Broadway. My dad kind of knows how to play instruments. Although, I always find it annoying when he does play an instrument.
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The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
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I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.
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Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
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Every single kid in my group of friends at school was from a single-parent family.
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My grandmother knew J.F.K. and L.B.J. That was her world. I enjoy meeting interesting people. But that's not my world.
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The fact that we are playing Latinos does not mean that you have to be shouting 'fiesta,' 'taco,' or talking in the same way most Latin characters do in American television.
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If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?
