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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I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.
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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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"Mine ain't a selfish affection, you know," said Mr. Toots, in the confidence engendered by his having been a witness of the Captain's tenderness. "It's the sort of thing with me, Captain Gills, that if I could be run over - or - or trampled upon - or - or thrown off a very high place -or anything of that sort - for Miss Dombey's sake, it would be the most delightful thing that could happen to me."
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That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps.
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There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
