Marion Chesney (M.C. Beaton) Quotes
Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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I'm not particularly fond of Shoah jokes, yet there is one I cannot forget: Why was Auschwitz an optimistic place? Because all the pessimists were already in New York by then.
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I have always said that my whole public life was an experiment to determine whether an intelligent people would sustain a man in acting sensibly on each proposition that arose, and in doing nothing for mere show or demagogical effect.
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I've always maintained that the only things to uphold are the good, the true and the beautiful. We have to reject what's ugly.
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The first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice as their habit of life, so that the jealousies of town against town, class against class and sect against sect no longer exist; and then to extend this good feeling beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours.
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Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?
