Maeve Binchy Quotes

I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.

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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Bizarrely, on movie sets, they don't really dig it when you look in the camera, which is a bizarre fact.

John Krasinski

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What I know is that we no longer have free enterprise capitalism in health care; it's not a system any longer where people are able to innovate. It's not based on voluntary exchange. The government is directing it.

John Mackey

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A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

Ann Bancroft

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Motivations are too tangled and complex.

Russell Banks

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We grew up listening to a variety of music, such as Gospel/Christian, R&B old/new school, jazz, blues, Mozart, Mary Poppins, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, just to name a few. I love opera, too - went to state in high school as a soloist.

Michelle Carter

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I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie.

Julia Roberts

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Your job, as a head coach and general manager, is to listen and not bypass any opportunity to help your team improve.

Josh McDaniels

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You can't know what you don't know. You can't know about things you have yet to discover.

Jonathan Raymond

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'Home Alone' had become the absolute biggest film I had ever done, and it became the third-highest grossing film of all time. So clearly it had an effect on me that is unparalleled to any other film experience in my childhood.

Devin Ratray

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Halloween is one day of breaking out of your shell, one day you can be completely expressive, where the world gives you license to dress up.

Chris March

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It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'

Colin Powell

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Every time we get in drag and bat an eyelash, it is a political statement.

Aquaria

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