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.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
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I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
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I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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J. J. Abrams is amazing.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.
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The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
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When a party is in opposition, it opposes. That's its job. But when it comes to power, it must govern. Easy rhetoric is over, the press of reality becomes irresistible. By necessity, it adopts some of the policies it had once denounced. And a new national consensus is born.
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Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.
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I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.
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Mother was so good that I was defeated even before I started to be an actress. I thought I could never make it unless I spent years in the Actors Studios, went on the blacklist and lived in New York, as she did.
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That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television - everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achieve it.
