Maeve Binchy Quotes
If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
Quotes to Explore
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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 have to be yourself.
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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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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.
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Take good care of our fragile planet.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
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People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
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To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
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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.
