Maeve Binchy Quotes

I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.

Maeve Binchy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Someone like Bernie Sanders can be in office for 30 years, but he's not the establishment.

Jimmy Gomez

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Elizabeth Taylor. In her heyday, she was amazing.

Joe Jonas

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All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

Joan Chen

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When you've something to fight for, you get the best out of yourself.

Jermain Defoe

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I get a lot of letters, mostly from family members who have been affected by cancer rather than young people themselves. I reply to them all.

Jenny Downham

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There are people all over Australia who use their homes as hubs that they travel from, and they encourage their indigenous people to continue to stay there.

Andrew Forrest

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I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures.

Tom Hooper

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The pressure is all self-imposed, and it's to live up to the expectations of people who are going to shell out their hard-earned cash to listen to the music. It's actually more than that, though. I wouldn't want to make a record that didn't live up to my expectations.

Tom Scholz

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When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments.

Tom Glazer

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There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way.

Mike Love

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When you start your career, you have to figure out a way to separate yourself from the pack. So I went for a kind of preppy, psycho-killer look: I had short hair, grey flannel pants, and a button-down shirt. I think it worked, because nobody else was looking that way at that time.

Loudon Wainwright III

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The funny thing is, when I ask people with dark skin if they would change their color, they tell me no, and when I ask women if they would rather be men, they tell me no, and I get the same response when I ask people with unusual anatomies if they would take a magic pill to erase their unusual features.

Alice Dreger

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