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Marian Keyes Quotes

Baking makes me focus. On weighing the sugar. On sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic - you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: irish
Birth: September 10, 1963

Topics

Focus Me Start End Baking Magic

I don't spend most of my life in front of the media.

Joaquin Phoenix

Life My Life Media Most Front Spend

I'm an actor. I'm hired to play whatever it is they want me to play - if I'm lucky enough to be cast for the part - which seems to take a lot of luck these days.

Me Luck Enough Play Want Actor

When people consume, they want more. Then they choose the best, and you suddenly get innovation coming in. Now combine that with desperation and people wanting to get a better life: you have a potent combination for innovation.

Life Innovation Best People Better

I was the seventh child in a family of eight siblings. We lost our father very young, and my mother had pretty much single-handedly brought us up.

Family Father Mother Child Young Up

I do a variety of weight-lifting, elliptical glider, stretching exercises, push-ups.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Stretching Variety Push-Ups Exercises

I actually have huge respect for Lorne Michaels. I think that guy is really something.

Michaela Watkins

Respect Think Guy Something I Think

When we're splitting our time between a physical and digital world, you have to stay safe online the same way you stay safe offline.

Time World You Way Digital Same

No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and since the Filipino is regarded as a fit citizen when he is asked to pay taxes or shed his blood to defend the fatherland, why must this fitness be denied him when the question arises of granting him some right?

Fitness Man Civilization Citizen Why

The first thing I learned was the 'St Louis Blues' when I was eight. Both my grandmothers, my mother and uncle played the piano. This was post-war Britain, and they played boogie woogie and blues, which was the underground music of the time.

Mother Music Time Uncle Blues First

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.

Words Think Language Powerful Kid

When you're young, it's so easy to get bull-dozed.

Christina Aguilera

Easy You Young Get

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.

History Beach School Black Brooklyn

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