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Maeve Binchy Quotes

My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live in what is now called Fashionable Dublin Four. But she felt that this was a vain hope. I was a bit loud to make a nice professional wife, and anyway, I was too keen on spending my holidays in far flung places to meet any of these people.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Mother Live Hope Wife People Me

'Fargo' was the turnaround for me, in terms of film, because it was a part; it wasn't a line.

John Carroll Lynch

Me Line Film Because Part Terms

Generations of devoted American history buffs have spent countless hours reading and writing long books about the American Revolution without ever having come across the name of Dr. Thomas Young. Yet it was Young who came up with the idea for the original tea party - the one in Boston Harbor.

Matthew Stewart

History Tea Writing Reading Name

I've had a great experience with pretty much everybody I've worked with.

Great Experience Pretty Everybody

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Life Change Decision Control Rest

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

Stephen Hawking

Women Mathematics People Better

I'm shorter, I don't have as many freckles as Ron, and I can't do magic.

Magic Freckles Many Ron

The nations of Europe constitute a federative league, a commonwealth of nations which, though it has no central head, is so intimate and elaborate as to subject the action, and sometimes even the internal affairs, of each to surveillance and intervention on the part of all the others.

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

Action Sometimes Others Europe Head

I've always had good energy; I've always had good health.

Good Good Health Health Energy Had

I have a very flexible and easy schedule that affords me a wonderful lifestyle in Los Angeles. I'm able to be a very present mother, able to pursue other projects.

Mother Me Present Easy Lifestyle

I'd like to improve on running plays. I want to see if I can hurt some more people. To me, I don't think I'm out there hurting enough people.

People Me Think Hurt Enough I Can

I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain.

William Standish Knowles

Work Brain Hands Well Who Liked

It's a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the '70s. They were really very honorable guys, like Neal Bogart and Bill Graham, people who will never be around again.

People Generation Will Never Miss

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