Maeve Binchy Quotes

The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.

Maeve Binchy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

StoryBornImportantMatterCapable

I was an Army intelligence agent and a veteran during the Cold War, assigned to West Germany. I was the chairman of the National Commission on Homeland Security and Terrorism for the United States for five years. I was a person who has dealt extensively with these homeland security issues. I was a governor during the 9/11 attack.

Jim Gilmore

IntelligenceWarColdArmySecurity

The climate informs the character.

Melissa Leo

CharacterClimateInforms

Games have a huge impact on our society because the media plays a role in helping to shape our attitudes. So it's not just fantasy.

Anita Sarkeesian

SocietyImpactMediaGamesFantasy

Prisoners around the world have said that reading 'The Count of Monte Cristo' helped them get through their ordeal. That's something to aspire to.

Tom Reiss

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The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque.

Ron Wyden

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I probably felt most out of place as a young kid growing up in Sri Lanka. My mental world was somewhere else, partly because of reading and daydreaming.

Romesh Gunesekera

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The Way teaches that people outside the cult are evil - of the Devil. In line with that belief, the members tried to alienate me from my family, to whom I am very close, and from my friends. So I just drifted away. In seeing my three-month involvement as 'just a phase,' my parents were lucky rather than wise.

Michael O'Keefe

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I don't think it's possible to have a wedding without it being stressful!

Debra Messing

ThinkWeddingPossibleWithoutBeing

I need complete silence when I write.

Chris Bohjalian

SilenceWriteNeedCompleteI Write

America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats.

Christopher Bond

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Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.

Constance Baker Motley

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I love 'Anne of Green Gables.' I have for years. That's one of my favourite things. She's such a can-do kind of girl; that's why I'm crazy about her.

Aretha Franklin

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