"When I was growing up, I despised Irishness.……" — Marian Keyes
"When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of what came out of Britain and America. I was all set to abandon it entirely."
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83 Quotes by Marian Keyes
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Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or…
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I haven’t had Botox because my face is a bit lopsided and I depend on keeping everything animated so that…
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Love and kindness go hand in hand.
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I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you…
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As you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and…
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Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen.
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Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has…
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For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.
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Here's how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth.
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I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't…
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I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular…
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I like hoodies. They just make me feel safe.
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More Abandon Quotes
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for…
— Teresa of Avila
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
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When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon…
— Javier Bardem
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If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of…
— Gary Bauer
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More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance…
— Gary Bauer
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Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration,…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.
— George W. Bush
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I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign…
— David Byrne
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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the…
— Albert Camus
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