Maeve Binchy Quotes
I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
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It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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You need to understand the batsman, where he plays his shot usually, which is his release shot, and then change the angle, vary the pace, line and length. You cannot always react after being at the receiving end.
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My theory on politics is no one really knows how it works, so I choose not to comment on stuff too outside of my league.
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Nothin' wrong with havin' a cat in the house. They can see what most people can't, like the folks in the Otherworld when they cross back over - the good ones and the bad. And they get rid a mice.
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Christianity made us think there's one heaven.
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We're bigger than we ever dreamed, and I'm in love with being queen.
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In 2012, I was invited to a ski event called the Hartford Ski Spectacular to learn how to sit-ski for the first time. I loved it, but it was not pretty - I was not good. I didn't know how to stop, so I kept throwing myself on the ground.
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
