Marian Keyes Quotes
Love is an emotion. It can't be seen or touched, and it is experienced differently by everyone, therefore it is difficult to measure.
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I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.
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I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.
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I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.
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You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.
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A couple of my friends started having babies, and I thought, 'Maybe one day, with the right guy.' I have to find the guy first.
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You know, I'm a curvy woman and I just want to be comfortable with that.
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To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family.
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Bullfights are a very cultural thing. I know many people think it's cruel, but so many things are cruel. Hunting, the electric chair, wars. These are all cruel things as well.
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To get scared is something not in my personality.
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When I go down the ice, I feel it, the wind in the side of my hair, and then I got the party in the back.
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When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with.
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My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.
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My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
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If Indians were not largehearted, they wouldn't have made so much of progress and delivered growth.
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Progress is man’s indifference to the lessons of history.
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There is one Resolution I will not omit. Resolved that no Slaves be imported into any of the thirteen colonies.
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More disturbing still was their frequent use of the word 'dominance' to describe their strategic goal, because an American policy of dominance is as repugnant to the rest of the world as the ugly dominance of the helpless, naked Iraqi prisoners has been to the American people. Dominance is as dominance does.
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I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.
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...I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.
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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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The greatest threat of all to their identity, and to the very idea of a nomadic hunter in North America, appeared on the plains in the late 1860s. These were the buffalo men. Between 1868 and 1881 they would kill thirty-one million buffalo, stripping the plains almost entirely of the huge, lumbering creatures and destroying any last small hope that any horse tribe could ever be restored to its traditional life. There was no such thing as a horse Indian without a buffalo herd. Such an Indian had no identity at all.
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Love is an emotion. It can't be seen or touched, and it is experienced differently by everyone, therefore it is difficult to measure.
