Maeve Binchy Quotes
In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!

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This is a group playing together and that's the only way, I feel, this play can be successful and moving. I am so lucky to have the people that are in it. When I came here I didn't know who was going to be in the play.
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Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.
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I find that with period pieces, you're sort of able to really take advantage of what's around you because prop-wise, wardrobe-wise and location-wise, it's all so specific due to that time.
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I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
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All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
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I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
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The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
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Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
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Truth is the best defense.
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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
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Home is most important in the long run.
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I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
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I don't play accurately — any one can play accurately — but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.
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You don't have to be a bodybuilder to have strength in your muscles.
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In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!