Maeve Binchy Quotes
In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!
Quotes to Explore
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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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The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.
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We live fragmented, compartmentalized lives in which contradictions are carefully sealed off from each other. We have been taught to think linearly rather than comprehensively, and we do this not through conscious design or because we are not intelligent or capable, but because of the way in which deep cultural undercurrents structure life in subtle but highly consistent ways that are not consciously formulated.
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Staying fit is all about trying to find enjoyment in something physical, because that's the only way you're gonna get results.
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Our main concern is to reduce mercury. We look at it clearly as a toxic chemical. We've been doing more testing around the state in streams and lakes and fish, and we're finding more of it.
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In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!
