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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He practiced against Kobe all of last year, so obviously it was sweet revenge for him. We deserved that. We didn't know who he was, we gave him up to Charlotte, we had no idea how good a player he was.
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Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
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We have a choice. We can love our lives trying to conform to some nebulous standard, or we can live our lives seeing how everything works. When we step back and look at it that way, it is obvious that the attitude of fascination is the only intelligent one to bring to anything.
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Vulnerability is a wonderful thing. We're all so afraid to be vulnerable in this world.
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!
