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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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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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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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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The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
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Getting older is experience but it's also changing your mindset.
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I certainly believe that creativity must be an experience. If I'm to steal time away from people, we should give them something to react to.
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Ask yourself for a moment what is really important to you-not by anyone else's definition but your own.
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Simply expanding Medicaid does not improve health care outcomes. In Louisiana, instead we're helping people getting better paying jobs so they can provide for their own health care.
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God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.
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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.
