Mary Beard Quotes
The web is democratising and also the voice of people who don't think they have another outlet. And that voice can be punitive.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.
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I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.
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On Hillary's side, I don't think it gets more establishment than Hillary Clinton. If I had one word to describe Hillary, it would be 'beholden.' Nothing's gonna really change. Government's gonna have the answer to everything, and that's gonna mean taxes are gonna go up.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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I lived through many battles - the 1973, I was young; in 1982 with the Israeli invasions, and 2006 between Hezbollah and Israel. Before I emigrated to the States in '83, I had my own very black and white views of the Israelis and the Jews in general. But you start to understand that no matter what you think, there are two perspectives.
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I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
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I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'
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Acting is a form of confession.
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The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries.
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There were not many black students at Juilliard, unfortunately. So when you get there, you become very good friends, in particular, with the other black students.
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Very few people have actually read Freud, but everyone seems prepared to talk about him in that Woody Allen way. To read Freud is not as much fun.
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I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.
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The web is democratising and also the voice of people who don't think they have another outlet. And that voice can be punitive.
