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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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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Michael Jackson was adamantly against drugs and alcohol, he was extremely straight-laced; I couldn’t even swear around him. Being with Michael brought me back to my innocence.
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I could only choose between being an outcast and being dishonest.
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You get to a point in your life where you go, 'I don't remember what I did.'
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Women love romance, but they're not as romantic as men.
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In a way, you might say that David Duke is the son of Willie Horton. Duke is more overt, of course, but he's really just pushing the same buttons and sending the same coded messages that the Horton ads did so effectively for the Bush campaign last year.
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There is no argument that I won't take seriously.
