William Trevor Quotes
I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbor and playing in the beautiful parks.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anybody.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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I've read that an average dog possesses a vocabulary of 200-300 words, which is enough for him to have his own Twitter account.
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It was all encompassing and so hard for me to do any classes or take up any hobbies - I'd wake up with this gnawing feeling in my stomach that I wasn't doing what I was meant to do.
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All conflict can be traced back to someone's feelings getting hurt, don't you think?
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The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
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We need to start thinking about the needs of the American people before we go and solve everybody else's problems.
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There is nothing better than humor to keep a marriage going.
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I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.
