Maeve Binchy Quotes
Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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One has to wonder what Donald Trump will say next as he ramps up his anti-Muslim bigotry. Where is there left for him to go? Are we talking internment camps? Are we talking the final solution to the Muslim question? I feel like I'm back in the 1930s.
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I need to eat a lot; otherwise, I feel faint. I get in the worst moods if I don't eat.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
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I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.
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To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career is based upon.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.
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You've got to be all-in on this sport; you can't be one foot out the door.
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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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A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
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Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.
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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.
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You can make a film in a way that, when the audience leaves the theater, they leave with certain answers in their head. But when you leave them with answers, you interrupt the process of thinking. If, instead, you raise questions about the themes and the story, this means that the audience is on its way to start thinking.
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India's rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
