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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Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
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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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The attorney-client privilege is the bedrock principle of our legal system, ... The confidential nature of the attorney-client relationship is no less important in government than in every other context where it exists.
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Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths.
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Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking.
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In the beginning was the myth.
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The dead are the only people to have permanent dwellings.
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You have to do what you feel comfortable with.
