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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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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I trained as a dancer when I was much younger, for a large amount of time, like 6 or 7 years. Not to be a ballet dancer, actually, but I thought it was a complement for an actor. I thought that actors should know how to move, should know how to juggle, should know how to do acrobatics.
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I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.
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My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.
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Blanching the cloves removes the harsh and bitter bite of raw garlic.
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I was trained as a straight dramatist.
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Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… .
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I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.
