Marian Keyes Quotes

I used to write in bed, starting when I woke up. I believe that creative work comes from our subconscious mind, so I try to keep the gap between sleep and writing as minimal as possible.

Marian Keyes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkCreativeSleepMindWriting

I was writing, directing, and editing my own films as a young kid with my parents' video camera.

Meagan Tandy

ParentsWritingCameraYoungEditing

While I personally believe strongly in the philosophy and ideology of the Free Software movement, you can't win people over just on philosophy; you have to have a better product, too.

Matt Mullenweg

PeopleWinFreeBelieveBetterYou

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

Michael Eisner

LeadershipBusinessPartnerSelfless

The media are always on the lookout for possible sightings of D.B. Cooper, the man who parachuted from a plane with $200,000 in ransom money in November 1971. But the truth is, the mystery man wearing dark sunglasses almost certainly died during the jump, according to the FBI agents on the case at the time.

Ronald Kessler

TruthTimeMoneyManSunglasses

I have the restaurant, too. I serve Southwest, barbecue.

Mickey Gilley

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So I would dance and she would sing, and it was kind of a family thing. Performing was part of our world.

Liza Minnelli

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I look at my father, who was in many ways an unhappy person, but who, not long before he got sick, said that the greatest source of satisfaction in his life had been going to work in the company of other workers.

Jonathan Franzen

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I love being Italian.

Connie Stevens

LoveBeingItalianI Love

If you play a role, you want to familiarize yourself with that person's world. If I were playing an airline pilot or a doctor, I'd probably want to hang out with a doctor or an airplane pilot for a while, ask some questions. You don't get to hang out the kings. They don't help consult on movies. So your resources are, by necessity, secondary.

Colin Firth

YourselfDoctorWorldAirplaneHelp

I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense.

Anna Sui

LoveHistoryArtTogetherEndSense

When I was in high school, I was voted most likely to succeed.

Sheryl Sandberg

SchoolSucceedHigh SchoolHighMost

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

Seamus Heaney

BeautyWarPoetryViolenceInjustice

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