"My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face."

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Maeve Binchy

#Mother Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Nurse Quotes

“Can I wear your blazer?”
“Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.”
“At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does.”
“And if you think you're alone. Put on my music. Because I'm going to be there for you.”
“I was hoping for 13 episodes that my friends would like. Itâ€™s a good lesson, isnâ€™t it? If you do something trying to make your friends laugh and that you can be proud of, you can also be successful.”
“It is exciting to discover electrons and figure out the equations that govern their movement; it is boring to use those principles to design electric can openers. From here on out, it's all can openers.”
“Direction is the most invisible part of the theatrical art. It's not like the conductor in the symphony orchestra performance because he's standing in front of you waiving his arms. You now what he's doing. You don't know what the director is doing unless you know a lot about theater and even then you can only deduce it. You know it when you go to rehearsal. You really know it when they are rehearsing something of yours. I learned more in the rehearsals for The Letter than I have ever dreamed of know in the theater as a critic. If it doesn't make me a better critic, I'm an idiot.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth; it is tangible and forceful.”

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