Maeve Binchy Quotes

I once got a huge, expensive flower arrangement from a person I didn't like, who sent it out of pure guilt. It had a hideous bird-of-paradise in the middle, and I thought it would never fade and die. I hated it.

Maeve Binchy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I've always navigated my way around the comedy writing rooms because I didn't want to cater to this side and that side; I just wanted to be liked by everybody.

Jermaine Fowler

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We should not have our children going to school to learn how to become obese.

Jeanne Kohl-Welles

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My confidence came from the way I grew up, and I'm grateful for it.

Amanda Lindhout

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My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.

Amber Tamblyn

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I love dark chocolate. I'm also a peanut butter and chocolate fanatic. That's pretty much the greatest invention of the last century.

Tom Lenk

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By the age of 17, for me, we had got an recording contract, and, boom, I was gone.

Tommy Lee

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Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.

Tom Scholz

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Once, every four years, you get an opportunity to compete in the Olympics. You have these six dives that decide whether you're an Olympic medallist or not, which is quite intense.

Tom Daley

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Having gotten TV shows on the air, that's so much less work that trying to get the 'Veronica Mars' movie made.

Rob Thomas

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I share an office with Jason Sudeikis, and I'm friends with him, so I end up writing for him a lot.

Mike O'Brien

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I just try to find ways to help my team win.

Miguel Cabrera

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Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

Michael Moriarty

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