Mary Beard Quotes
I'm not in the slightest wanting to attack the women's movement here. But I think that in popular, broadly left-wing, broadly feminist discourse, there is a tendency to just label discrimination against women - and embedded assumptions about them - as misogyny and think 'job done.'
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I'm a huge gamer. I'm very excited, and the idea of the Rift was as a headset that was designed around the specific uses of VR gaming. But I'm excited about a lot of stuff that's outside of it, because I was a VR enthusiast. I want VR to be the thing that we all live in, that we all use for everything, not just games.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
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One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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I won't do a role which children in my family cannot look up to.
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Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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I've always been interested in making movies.
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I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
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Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
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Dude, I turn into a six-year-old when I come to Disneyland. It's amazing. My eyes glass over and my blood pressure goes down. I'm just like everybody else. I turn into a big kid when I come here. It's the happiest place on earth, right?
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Saddam Hussein has openly admitted to the rest of the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. He used those weapons to kill his own people.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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I used to play a lot of tennis and then, next thing you know, same thing with tennis. That banging on the knees, the jarring, twisting motion - I couldn't do it. All of a sudden, every time I played, my knee would swell up.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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I admire actresses like Jennifer Lawrence, who says what she thinks.
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I'm not in the slightest wanting to attack the women's movement here. But I think that in popular, broadly left-wing, broadly feminist discourse, there is a tendency to just label discrimination against women - and embedded assumptions about them - as misogyny and think 'job done.'
