Marian Keyes Quotes

When you're a mass-market writer, people think that you can just decide 'this happens, this happens, this happens', whereas with literary writers it's coming from their soul and their core. But with me it does come from my soul and my core, and my soul and my core often go AWOL, and then I've nothing to write.

Marian Keyes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SoulPeopleMeThinkMy SoulYou

Korean skin care is about the daily and nightly routine, and I do it religiously.

Jessica Jung

DailyCareRoutineSkinKorean

I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear.

John Corigliano

GoodBeginningThinkYouNewTeach

I wore makeup when I was at school, and I wore makeup when glam started. I started wearing it again when punk started. I've always been drawn to wearing it. It's partly ritualistic, partly theatrical and partly just because I think I look better with it on.

Robert Smith

SchoolMakeupThinkBetterLook

All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.

Robert Kennedy

OpportunityWorldWishDifficultUs

Labor, under their current leadership, want to be the Downtown Abbey party when it comes to educational opportunity. They think working class children should stick to the station in life they were born into - they should be happy to be recognized for being good with their hands and not presume to get above themselves.

Michael Gove

LifeLeadershipGoodChildrenHappy

I had three rules for my players: No profanity. Don't criticize a teammate. Never be late.

John Wooden

LateRulesThreeNeverTeammateHad

To have a director's direct feedback is invaluable.

Masi Oka

FeedbackDirectorDirectInvaluable

The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference.

Martina Hingis

BetterMake A DifferenceMeetingsNow

I don't really write songs. They're just there anyway, chiseling away at the atmosphere, and suddenly they're like, 'Oh, thanks for coming. Thanks for finding me. We'll share each other now.'

Johnny Flynn

MeFindingNowWriteThanksComing

I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really.

Christopher Eccleston

YearRidiculousThreeTwoLeadDays

The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over 'The Wall Street Journal' or the 'Financial Times' and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.

Peter Mayle

LifeGreatMoneyMeThinkFinancial

Plain and simple, Congress must act to meet the needs of our constituents. We can do that by strengthening families, increasing the minimum wage, and ensuring equal pay for equal work.

Paul Tonko

WorkSimpleCongressMeetEqualPay

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