Marion Chesney (M.C. Beaton) Quotes
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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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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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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The easiest way I can describe what makes a pop song a pop song is that it's a song you want to hear over and over.
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While in the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them, as anybody who has a knowledge of Chinese literature will testify.
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...so go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.
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I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.
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If your faith is in experiences, anything that happens is likely to upset that faith.
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A lady is as young as the gentleman she feels," said Roy and cackled happily.
