Maeve Binchy Quotes
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov -
I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.
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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
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Growing up in the time of Title IX - it was passed when I was 10 - I got a front-row seat to so many great moments in women's sports. Of course I didn't know it at the time.
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I always believe that a good story will find its audience and that it will attract different kinds of elements of creative people who will make it more compelling.
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You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
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Life is a question without a standard answer.
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Soometimes when you have something that seems too good to be true, you start waiting for it to crumble to pieces around you.
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I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.
