Mary Balogh Quotes

I have written more than 100 novels and novellas since 1983 - I was first published in 1985. There was an overlap of three years with my teaching career, but finally I felt good enough about my writing career to quit teaching and write full time.

Mary Balogh

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: welsh
  • Birth: March 24, 1944

Topics

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I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of it anymore.

Jeremy Renner

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If you approach economic policy with the spirit of compromise, you can actually get good support.

John Delaney

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It was a struggle to humanize Donald Trump, who was the antagonist in my satirical thriller 'The Day of the Donald'. Of course, I heard from some readers who thought I made Trump too likable.

Andrew Shaffer

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'Teen Beach Movie' was a lot of fun because we were in Puerto Rico on an island - you can't even call it work!

Ross Lynch

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As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes before I ever flew in one. I really knew, when I started photographing, I wanted it to be a way of knowing different cultures, not just in other countries but in this country, too, and I knew I wanted to enter other lives. I knew I wanted to be a voyeur.

Mary Ellen Mark

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Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

GodNowHereOnlyMarketAssumed

I try to use the landline whenever I can. We cannot do without the mobile phones, but we don't need to use them indiscriminately. We are overusing it; we are misusing it.

Juhi Chawla

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Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.

Joss Whedon

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When determining appropriate levels of compensation, management must determine if the employee turnover rate is too low, too high, or just right. If turnover rate is high enough to adversely impact the entity's performance, then employee compensation is probably too low.

Jason Chaffetz

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Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Joseph Heller

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There is always someone in the world who is better or worse off than yourself, and I've never seen that - in either direction - as a barrier to becoming friends with somebody.

Jools Holland

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I have tried many times to write a TV sitcom - with little success.

Dominic Holland

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