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.
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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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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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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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It's quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger.
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I've got to literally write my own ticket.
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He thought the whole thing was so funny.
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You don't need tons of money to create art. You do need tons of money to be a part of show business. They are two different things.
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I have...a terrible need...shall I say the word?...of religion. Then I go out at night and paint the stars.
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I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.
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Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen.
