Marion Chesney (M.C. Beaton) Quotes
Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes.
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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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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.
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The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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Christian Louboutin, I love you, but honey, please! But when you have this much weight, you've got to give us a little platform. Sorry! The shoes are stunning though. An ounce of pain, it's worth it.
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.
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Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. How can we ever be satisfied without them until our feelings are deadened?
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Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes.
