Marion Chesney (M.C. Beaton) Quotes
That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television - everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achieve it.
Marion Chesney
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
Imelda May
I've cooked plenty of meals when I was sad, lonely, depressed, angry, bored, and/or under the weather. My primary aim in these circumstances is generally to cheer myself up, to fill my stomach with something warm so I can feel comforted and fed, usually just with a quick soup or an omelet.
Kate Christensen
I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire in a person courage, intellect, hard work. These are the qualities I admire in an intellectual, in a writer, and there are so many people who have these things.
Orhan Pamuk
J. J. Abrams is amazing.
Oscar Isaac
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
Jackie Kennedy
I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.
Carine Roitfeld
I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books.
Karin Slaughter
Merely to come into the world the heir of a fortune is not to be born, but to be still-born, rather. To be supported by the charity of friends, or a government-pension, - provided you continue to breathe, - by whatever fine synonymes you describe these relations, is to go into the almshouse.
Henry David Thoreau
Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
Wislawa Szymborska
It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
Barbara Kingsolver
For me, the country where I feel good, where I feel in harmony with the lifestyle and fundamental values, is the United States - more than any other country.
Alain Juppe
That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television - everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achieve it.
Marion Chesney
