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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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
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When I look back on my career, like I said earlier, I had some mammoth footsteps to follow in my father, my Uncle Bobby and my family.
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Anything can happen someday, even that an act conforming to honour and honesty can end up, at the end of the line, as a good political decision.
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As much as I'd like to meet the tooth fairy on an evening walk, I don't really believe it can happen.
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Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.
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There is no argument that I won't take seriously.