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Maeve Binchy

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KELLY JONES I was a huge fan of 'Arrested Development,' and there's just something it tickles in me ...
KERI RUSSELL Whenever there's negotiations, there's things that you absolutely love, and there's thin...
D'BRICKASHAW FERGUSON You hear all these stories about, 'There's one in a million guys that make it to the NBA and...
KEVIN DURANT I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES There are checks and balances in science. There's somebody checking the people doing the science...
MICHAEL SHERMER It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories ...
CARICE VAN HOUTEN There's only one prima donna in my pictures, and that's me!
WILLIAM WYLER My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.
MICHAEL JACKSON Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit ac...
J. D. SALINGER Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea...
TOM CLANCY As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, ma...
MAEVE BINCHY think about it: Romeo and Juliet bucked the system, and look where it got them. Superman has the hot...
JODI PICOULT Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, ...
TED DEKKER There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
BILL CONDON I've always loved 'Before and After' stories, in books, magazines, and TV shows. Wheneve...
GRETCHEN RUBIN There's a restaurant in Manhattan called Balthazar, and next to it is Balthazar Bakery. It's...
TOM DOUGLAS Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's gr...
BERNADETTE PETERS In San Francisco, I eat halal, which is kind of like Muslim kosher, and there's this one Thai re...
YUNA There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebod...
CULLEN HIGHTOWER If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not t...
MARC NEWSON There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories abo...
AARON SORKIN My home in Dallas is wonderful. I can walk everywhere. It's a pretty good hidden secret, Dallas....
JODI LYN O'KEEFE That's how my family bonded - eating and telling stories.
SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwin...
NICK LACHEY There's something that goes on in a new-business meeting that's wonderful to watch. It's...
JERRY DELLA FEMINA My dad always said there's four phases in an actor/director's life. There's 'Mario W...
MARIO VAN PEEBLES I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most ch...
HAROLD PINTER I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
EDIE CAMPBELL There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things...
TOBIAS WOLFF There's no longevity in me telling old stories on the radio.
DANNY BONADUCE I've just had a wonderful time doing Chinese music, and it's been so rewarding for me. I fee...
WANG LEEHOM I'm only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else's ...
JOYCE MEYER Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.
DYLAN THOMAS Rome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I'm there, it's like a holiday.
GIAMBATTISTA VALLI There's a personal me, there's an actor me and there's a star me.
SHAH RUKH KHAN My Latin education teaches me that religion comes from religio, which means, 'to bind.' To b...
JAMES CALLIS My childhood gave me resilience - and there's little that can surprise me in life.
NATALIA VODIANOVA But there's always a Mass. It's not a formal Mass at all. We're sitting around her dinin...
LINDA VESTER To me, it's very exhilarating when somebody else does a great thing, and it's not me.
LOUIS C. K. Orlando's a part of me. The next guy's a part of me. And the next guy's a part of me. Th...
SHEMAR MOORE I wouldn't give up my career for somebody. The most important thing to me is my work, and reachi...
ADELAIDE KANE It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with ...
CUBA GOODING, JR. The whole idea of genre and categorising films is a critic's construct. For me, I just try and m...
BEN WHEATLEY It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.
NASTASSJA KINSKI The coming together of a man and woman was a holy thing, after all. God had chosen this way of reple...
NAOMI RAGEN When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn...
BYRON KATIE A dirty player is somebody who ultimately is trying to hurt somebody. There's a huge difference....
NDAMUKONG SUH There's something that really frightens me - and that's fear.
ELAINE STRITCH If we find life out there, and it's not us, we will deem it not intelligent. But what may be equ...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that'...
HALSEY Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it&#...
CHIP ESTEN Beckett's 'Stories and Texts for Nothing' is probably my favorite book.
FRANZ WRIGHT I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato...
ISAIAH WASHINGTON Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really we...
MADCHEN AMICK There's probably a couple someones that are gonna hear the songs and go, 'I think that might...
CHRIS YOUNG In general, in any kind of stepparent relationship, I'm happy that there's somebody else lov...
ELIN NORDEGREN It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's t...
HARVEY FIERSTEIN I do come across people who don't like me, don't like my comedy, don't think it's fu...
DEMETRI MARTIN There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming wom...
JOHN ERSKINE There's a bright spot in every dark cloud.
BRUCE BERESFORD David Attenborough... has that wonderful, breathy voice, and he's always so fascinated by what h...
JANE BIRKIN There's something about being onstage, singing my lyrics to somebody and them either listening a...
CASSADEE POPE To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly di...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON Quantum physics is a bit of a passion of mine. It's extraordinary. There's a branch of mathe...
BOB HOSKINS I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work...
TAMMY BLANCHARD I get sort of short with people and start grumbling and clearing my throat - in honor of my father -...
MARIA BAMFORD When you label somebody and put them in a box, then you put the lid on the box, and you just never l...
STEPHANIE BEATRIZ There's an intelligent redneck in all of us somewhere.
RODNEY ATKINS All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot m...
SAM WALTON In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that ...
RADHANATH SWAMI Sarah is very strong. She's really intelligent and she's very physically capable. I like to ...
YVONNE STRAHOVSKI It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
FOREST WHITAKER You see George Clooney, and you think he's suave and handsome and really charming, but he's ...
BRITT ROBERTSON What I've learned, traveling the country and doing book signings, Mama's biscuits - you know...
TRISHA YEARWOOD It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official.
ERIC HOLDER There's all kinds of depictions of black men. You have the Denzel Washingtons and the Will Smith...
MICHAEL JAI WHITE There's a woman I see who's not my therapist, but she's like an old friend who's a t...
LOUIS C. K. I think that's the real reason, sometimes, that people talk about my stories as being scary, bec...
MARY GAITSKILL To feel nervous; to feel threatened and vulnerable and alive and engaged in that sense when interact...
ALEX KARPOVSKY There's the job and then there's my family. There's very little time beyond that for fri...
DALTON MCGUINTY When people say to me, 'What do you think of rap music?', my answer is, 'There's no ...
JACK JONES I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I can safely say that other than macaroni and cheese, there's no processed food in my life. Ther...
GINNIFER GOODWIN I'm sure there's somebody out there who doesn't like Betty White because she's short...
ELLEN DEGENERES To think that my heart and my words and my music saved somebody's life, it takes a while to just...
JOSH TURNER When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thi...
IRWIN THOMAS I've always felt that if something is polarizing, that's usually the stuff I like the most. ...
ANDY SAMBERG Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince - so are patience and a sense of humor. ...
ANNE HATHAWAY You know what, I'm very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I ...
BEYONCE KNOWLES My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there's the side...
EVANGELINE LILLY There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen.
ELIZABETH ARDEN I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.
SAM HUNT Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad th...
MEG WHITE An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's...
MAGGIE SMITH If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing th...
JOCK STURGES I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pil...
BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pil...
BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY And I'm slightly in love with Scarlett Johansson: she's just stunning. And she's bright,...
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MAEVE BINCHY I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.
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MAEVE BINCHY I'll understand if you don't want me. But I will be heartbroken. You are all I ever dreamed of and h...
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