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Maeve Binchy Quotes

I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Family Good Age Old Age Happy Lucky

My dad would take me downtown, and I'd stand backstage and watch him in the vaudeville pit band. I was 6 or 7. He was a musician, a band leader, a wonderful clarinetist and saxophone player.

Leader Me Stand Band Him Wonderful

Nobody knows I sing. Even though I've done Broadway musicals. I would only pick it over acting because it's such a pure form of emotional expression.

Acting Nobody Done Over Emotional

When I first seriously decided to become a cartoonist would have been '99/2000, right before 9/11. I've been writing and illustrating stories in the world post-9/11 since then, watching the world change around me.

Change Me Writing World Seriously

The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn't have a flip turn.

Me Basketball Back Pool Wall Coach

I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.

Me Buy Anything General Store

There was no better end than Lance Alworth and no better lineman than Ron Mix. Those are Hall of Fame guys. There was no better guard than Walt Sweeney and no better pair of running backs than Keith Lincoln and Paul Lowe.

End Better Fame Guard Pair Mix

If we are genuinely committed to promoting a culture of peace, as individuals we must look to our values and ensure that we all exhibit a peace loving life to our nation's children.

Silvia Cartwright

Life Children Culture Peace Look

The E.U. should pay more attention to the plight of African nations hosting large numbers of refugees themselves - at times for decades.

Miroslav Lajcak

Attention Numbers More Refugees Pay

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

Rejection You Look Acting Go Up

Having more than one legal system running is not a sign of a healthy or inclusive society. It is just one less thing that people have in common.

People Society Legal Healthy More

I think where I differ a little bit, we absolutely have to think about the deficit looking down the road. And certainly that's something the president has said that we need to, as the economy recovers, have a plan in place for getting it down.

Christina Romer

Looking Road Think Plan Down Place

'Jurassic Park' was able to get away with big, dynamic filmmaking that might be out of place in another kind of story.

Colin Trevorrow

Story Place Filmmaking Kind Park

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