Marian Keyes Quotes

Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen.

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• You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Attention
  • Study
  • Waiting

• Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Money
  • Poverty
  • Breeds

• Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Long
  • Character
  • Comedy

• I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Government
  • Easy

• To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • True
  • Die

• There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Feel
  • Coming

• I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • People
  • Me
  • Years

• I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Money
  • Thought
  • Movies

• It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Practice
  • Impossible

• 'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Story
  • Two
  • Sides

• I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Want
  • Decisions
  • Option

• If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Life
  • Die
  • Taken

• His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Knowledge
  • Teach
  • Nothing

• Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Matter

• I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Certainly
  • Itself
  • Lends

• My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.'

  

  Action Bronson
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

• Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Black
  • Hurt

• So consumed in all your doom, trying hard to fill the emptiness.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Trying
  • Sadness
  • Emptiness

• 'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.

  

  Feist
  • Mind
  • End
  • Songwriting

• The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

  

  E. B. White
  • People
  • World
  • Mind

• The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don't notice they're getting made fun of. So they'll say something back that's not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Character

• The family provides the army and navy with the best men and boys that it possesses. And, as we have seen, education and science too are becoming means to the ends sought by the military.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Men
  • Family
  • Science

• Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen.

  

  Marian Keyes
  • Mind
  • Lit