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 like people who can and like to make fun of themselves!
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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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Fanaticism and extremism cannot grow on an earth whose soil is embedded in the spirit of tolerance, moderation, and balance. Good governance can eliminate injustice, destitution and poverty.' Remarks at a Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Summit 5 December 2005.
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If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.
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When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.
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Rebecca held her head high and swanned across the hallway, but as she neared the footman, she could see quite plainly that his gaze was not where it should be. She stopped dead and slapped her hands over her bosom. "Its too low, isn't it? I knew I shouldn't have listened to that maid. She might not mind her boobies hanging out for all to see, but i just can't-" Her brain suddenly caught up with her mouth. She removed her hands from her bosom and slapped them over her awful, awful, awful mouth.
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Embarrassed by her admission and doing her best to ignore the heat searing her cheeks, she dragged her eyes to his and found a quietness waiting there that spoke to her wordlessly.
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If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
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There is no argument that I won't take seriously.
