Marina Warner Quotes
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment.
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The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
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I am formless and everywhere. I am in everything. I am in everything and beyond. I fill all space. All that you see, taken together, is Myself. I do not shake or move.
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I'm a weird dichotomy of nerd, sports fan, and musical theater, so I'd love to do a superhero musical on Broadway. But all the good superheroes are claimed.
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You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.
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The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
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There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.
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My retail partners, they are my brand ambassadors. They're the ones who are selling the shoes to women.
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I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
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I wish people would shift that focus on to themselves and their own family and their own friends and just maybe spend a little more time on their home front. And not some distant planet that is me.
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I like when people take chances.
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Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.
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Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.
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I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.
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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
