Mary Beard Quotes
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As the world undergoes a major transformation, it's the time of significant opportunity and also threat.
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A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on the common law, in that its code, a new one, was founded mainly on the Civil Law and the Code Napoleon of France.
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I'm not girly girly enough to care how I look on TV, or if I'm wearing the correct make up.
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
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Our goal was to show people a vision of food they hadn't seen before. So, I had this idea of... let's cut all these things in half, and show a picture of the food in the pan, in the oven.
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I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
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I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. On the other hand I am not a super-patriot. Super-patriotism leads to Hitlerism - and we've had our lesson there. I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.
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I like to browse and just hang in bookstores.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Live your life and forget your age.
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I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it.
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I've never even watched one of my films since they're completed.
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I'm not a big practice guy at all.
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To play with the best is very easy.
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When it comes to hockey, it's been in my blood since I was 3 or 4 years old. I love coaching the kids, especially at that level.
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I lost my mom to breast cancer about three years ago, and it has changed me forever.
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I'm a simple, simple man.
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There's a lot of people that are in need. We're going little by little... I'm only one person, but we are contributing.
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The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality.
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You have to do what you feel comfortable with.
