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Maeve Binchy Quotes

There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems.

Maeve Binchy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: irish
Birth: May 28, 1939 - June 30, 2012

Topics

Life Beautiful Ugly Problems Duck

I'm not a party person. I'm a nerd. I'm not an extrovert in that way at all. The things I enjoy doing could be boring to somebody else.

Andie MacDowell

Doing Enjoy Party Person Boring Way

The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered.

John Lithgow

Challenge Now Audience Up Variety

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

Mohsin Hamid

Think Encounter I Think Should Novel

My main thing is I'm gonna go out there every night and give it all I got and just try to put on the best show I can. That's just the way I'm programmed and wired.

Luke Bryan

Best Night I Can Go Way Try

Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.

Anne Lamott

Life Change Time I Am People Seem

And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it.

William Scranton

Walking Remember Say Must Closer

I like to see people's eyes when I'm singing to them.

Shakira

Eyes People Singing See Like Them

I have an amazing wife and three beautiful children, and that certainly makes you less obsessive about your art as a musician - which I've always felt was more like painting than anything.

Lindsey Buckingham

Beautiful Children Art Wife Amazing

If you yell about one woman, you're not a misogynist. If I yell about Michelle Bachman, that doesn't make me a misogynist. If I compare all women to Michelle Bachman, then I'm a misogynist.

Lewis Black

Women Woman Me You Make Compare

We've always had a dark atmosphere to our performances, so it sort of developed along those ways.

Kenny Hickey

Dark Always Atmosphere Along Our

Megaupload was a dual-use technology. You can use it for good things, and you can use it for bad things. If someone sends something illegal in an envelope through your postal service, you don't shut down the post office. If someone speeds with the car he just bought, you don't go to the car manufacturer and say, 'Hey, we're shutting you down.'

Kim Dotcom

Good Car Technology Service Someone

When I became a 'rock musician,' I assumed pop music was easy to write and that interesting rock music, or alternative music, was hard. It was only later I realised that writing a pop song is the hardest thing musically.

Kevin Parker

Music Writing Song Interesting Easy