Mary Beard Quotes
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.
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You set paths for yourself, but as you get older, things change.
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Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.
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For me, if the words are good on the page, the rest of it comes from spending some time with the script, and not like you're learning lines but absorbing what the script has to offer.
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Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.
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With both kids, I started working out again at 16 days postpartum, but I treated myself with kindness, doing mild workouts, because my fitness level was lower.
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I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do.
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I look at old performance videos now, and it's really funny - I thought I was such a gangster!
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I know Bo Xilai well. But our relationship was based on our work; we didn't have a personal relationship.
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I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age of 21, 22.
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I'm not even close to where I want to be; it's just a little mini step on the way. This is only the beginning.
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Modern dancing is old fashioned.
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I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think.
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I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields.
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If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.
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'I’m not a demagogue.''That’s too bad. That leaves the field to people who are demagogues-to the Jarrets of the world. And there have always been Jarrets. Probably there always will be.'
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I suppose one could claim that an undocumented feature has no semantics. :-(
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I put my hand on my chest. I can feel my heart beating. My heart is working. I'm pleased. I'm still alive.
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Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.
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I love Cadillacs and name them after birds.
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Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.
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I respect the police officers, but something you learn as a young black man in this country is that... life is a little bit different for you even though, on the surface, it seems to be the same.
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There is no argument that I won't take seriously.
