Marian Keyes Quotes

God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.

I am not in a hurry to do Hindi films. If it is destined, when it has to happen, it will.

My interest is to do interesting lead parts, to tell different stories and to surprise the audience. But as they say in Mumbai, everything is pre-written and it chooses you.

'How does your life turn out?' That's the ultimate novelistic question to me.

Whatever happens, happens for the better. I was meant to do 'Raabta.' Every film has its destiny, and it's the film that chooses you.

I wanted to be an architect, fate took me to films. Now that I am into politics, I want to give my best here.

I've had an interesting career, and I don't know if it was by chance or grace.

Everyone has their own career, their own fate, and everyone writes their own story.

Films were always there at the back of my mind. I would try to move away, but films kept coming to me. I would do movies for friends. I guess some things are meant to be!

I'm thrilled to be going back into 'Hollyoaks' and bringing Jude back.

I believe in fate. I didn't set out to be a comedian at first. I'm still not sure if I am or not.

I used to watch 'EastEnders' till the plots got ridiculous.

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

I think there is certainly luck and fate involved in any career of any kind. In show business, maybe it's even more true.

Everything happens at the time it needs to happen. I do not push destiny. Boxers take different paths in their career and those roads don't always come together.

Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.

Writing is the main gig and teaching and performing are sidelines, an excuse for not writing more. Working on a novel and on an opera make me seriously want to retire and find a volunteer job as a docent at the zoo explaining to schoolchildren where frogs go in the winter.

I know as a writer how valuable a tool is the wastebasket. Perhaps God throws away many experiments before He finds the right expression. Perhaps we are the discards - or we could be the part He keeps. This mystery is what keeps us all going, to see what happens in the next chapter.

Not without design does God write the music of our lives.

If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with valuable lessons designed just for you and only you. Suffering is imposed on us time and again so that one day we would become brave wise masters. That is, a strong being who is confidently aware of their intended direction in life, and fearlessly adding value to the world and their future.

Modeling chose me, I didn't choose modeling.

AMC [All My Children] launched my career and changed my life. I got married there and had my baby there and made so many close friends. I am so sad that it is going away. It is a part of television history. Pine Valley is a part of America. It breaks my heart. That role taught me how to really be an actress. It introduced me to a man who gave me my daughter. That is something that I am eternally thankful for and will always be.

I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened.