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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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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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.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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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.
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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.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
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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.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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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.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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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.
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Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.
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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.'
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I liked the Ballarat train as a child.
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In 1995, the Clinton Administration reached an agreement with Cuban government that any refugee caught at sea would be sent back to Cuba while any refugee who reaches the United States shores would be allowed to begin the process to citizenship after one year.
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Pabst Blue Ribbon. I'm from Johnson City, Tennessee. I gotta go Pabst.
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I want to inspire children to be obsessed over jewellery.
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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
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Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen.
