Maeve Binchy Quotes
If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
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I love to have no plans. It is amazing where your day can turn when you have no plans: meeting people or just going to a little pub on the side of the road.
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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
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I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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You have to be yourself.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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I think I'm a guy who loves to play defense. I have a great time in the outfield. I think it's fun robbing guys on hits - there are plenty of times you're gonna be robbed as a hitter.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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I think Kurt Cobain and Nirvana represent this giant wave that came crashing in and turned music on its head again, and there's definitely something to be said for that.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.
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Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
