Mary Beard Quotes
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Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.
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Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
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I never thought of myself as a singer, like ever, ever, ever. It's hysterical that I sing.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
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Make-up is all about shading; it's about tactical application.
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Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.
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Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.
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And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.
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I've seen guys sit the whole day doing nothing, and I hate it when people are unproductive. I don't like a guy who sits on the couch all day.
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My father, a bakery-truck driver, was the epitome of the work ethic that probably kept me knocking out columns six days a week for a rough total of 12,600 over 50 years.
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I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.
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I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.
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Cosmic energy enters the body through the medulla and then passes to the cerebrum, in which it is stored or concentrated.
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A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.
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And now to the decisive factor: our boundless urge to follow and serve, to worship anyone or anything, to believe blindly and with doglike loyalty, all advice to the contrary notwithstanding.
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I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.
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It is the silence between sounds that create Rhythm.
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There are periods where you think, "What am I doing?" or "What am I doing it for?"; that's a more scary question. "I've made s---loads of money, I've left my mark in music, why am I still doing this?," and it takes a while to answer that question.
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As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.
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I'm actually in a tradition of classicists with a big public face who like sounding off.
