Marion Chesney (M.C. Beaton) Quotes
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
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Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future.
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I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.
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The feeble soul merely whines and complains.
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I am an academic, and I have always made it clear that my ultimate home is in the realm of ideas.
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My stepdad is a Patriots fan, so I've become a Pats fan, too.
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I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.
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Young man, there is America - which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
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I love 'Love Actually' and particularly the story with Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson. I think it's possibly the best exploration of infidelity that's ever been done because it really feels accurate and real.
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I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.
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A lady is as young as the gentleman she feels," said Roy and cackled happily.
