Maeve Binchy Quotes
I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.
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I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.
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I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
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I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.
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My sister and I had resolved never to become teachers because the job seemed to demand so much. My mother always seemed to be working. Our dining room table was cluttered with papers waiting to be read and graded.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
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The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.
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If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.
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In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
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I actually prefer Twitter as a medium, and I also got into Periscope for a second, but I'm still trying to figure out what to do with it. I can't figure out if the only important thing about it is the live broadcast, or if it's an interesting kind of way to log what you do.
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It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.
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When the man governed by self-interest, the god of this world, does not renounce it but merely refines it by the use of reason and extends it beyond the constricting boundary of the present, he is represented (Luke XVI, 3-9) as one who, in his very person as servant, defrauds his master self- interest and wins from him sacrifices in behalf of 'duty.'
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What do we mean by soft matter? Americans prefer to call it 'complex fluids.' This is a rather ugly name, which tends to discourage the young students.
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Hey don't lock and turn away lose your life today and follow me into the alleyway.
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I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.
