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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That's what you feel as an athlete. Pretty much our job is to make the impossible happen every day. It's like magic, you know. I like that.
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Being stronger really helped my game.
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I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.
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It sucks to be the runner-up because I've been the runner-up for a long time in my career. I would get so close and then lose a huge movie and sometimes it's one kid who beats you out for three different movies. It's so frustrating at the time, but what's so great is the lesson you take from that, which is, 'I've got to get better.'
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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.
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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.
