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I'm particularly fond of boned chicken breasts with a little garlic under the flesh and cooked in a casserole for 40 minutes with a jar of olives, some cherry tomatoes and a spoonful of olive oil.

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Maeve Binchy
Age: 73 †
Born: 1939
Born: May 29
Died: 2012
Died: July 30
Journalist
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Playwright
School Teacher
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
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I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.
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Money doesn't make you happy, but it gives a zone of comfort around you.
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I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
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I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.
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I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.
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If you write what you know about, you will always be on safe ground. I am very edgy and nervous about going into territories I know nothing about. That's why you don't find much high finance, group sex, or yachting parties in my stories.
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You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.
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If I had my life to live all over again, I really think I would have been a fit person. Looking around me, I realise that the men and women who walked and ran and swam and played sport look better and feel better than the rest of us.
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I'm a great will maker. I've made my will every year since I was 21.
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In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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When I was younger, I avoided exercise or anything strenuous. I didn't even enjoy walking. As I got older, I spent so much time marking books or sitting at a desk writing that there was no room for exercise - not that I would have bothered anyway.
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