Maeve Binchy Quotes

An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.

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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The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

Jesse Ventura

NatureBestCommunismHuman Nature

I never try to marry more than three flavors in one dish.

Joel Robuchon

ThreeTryMoreNeverMarryThan

Even when I do roles that are really profoundly abusive, like, I would say, in 'Deadwood' - there's a guy who's a breeding ground for ignorance and hurtful behavior - the fact that people are so taken aback by that is a good thing because they're looking at themselves, and there's a part of me in there, too.

Michael Harney

GoodIgnorancePeopleMeLooking

I play a lot of nerdy voices.

Jeff Bennett

PlayNerdyVoicesLot

My whole life growing up, both my parents told me not to swear like a sailor. After college, I recall there was finally a time where I swore, and neither one of them was correcting me, and I felt so relieved. I thought, finally; I can finally be myself and not get yelled at.

Rory Freedman

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Denis Waitley

SuccessTimeEnergyPersonHuman

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

Dorothea Lange

EyesNothingMoreSeeTellOwn

Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender. Because thinking of changing the status quo is always uncomfortable.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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I think we are starting to get some information that will allow us to get to the bottom of this, and I hope we continue to work on this until we get to the bottom of it.

Collin C. Peterson

WorkHopeThinkInformationWillUs

I want to try and pay back the confidence and care that the people at Atletico have always shown me.

Antoine Griezmann

ConfidencePeopleMeCareBackWant

I try to approach the film medium as a novelist and the novel medium as a filmmaker on some level. It's that question: Do we think in pictures, or do we think in language? And the novelist believes one thing, and the filmmaker believes another thing - and I'm fascinated by that balance.

Noah Hawley

BalanceThinkLanguagePicturesTry

You can't really write a full album about your missus. She'll start getting the wrong idea and start thinking I like her.

Noel Gallagher

StartThinkingYouWrongWriteShe

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