Mary Beard Quotes
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New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.
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Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.
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The true facts are not always obvious. They often have to be looked for.
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He who hesitates is a damned fool.
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Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.
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I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night.
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Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.
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Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
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Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face.
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When we made 'Shaun of the Dead,' it was our first feature, and we were just lucky to make a film, full stop.
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The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of drawing lines.
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He had doubts about the utility of examination on subjects which had been crammed for the occasion. He wanted common sense.
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I hope I'm not getting so famous that I can't think out load [sic] anymore.
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When I lose touch with the audience and the reality of what life really is, I'll be Vanilla Ice or something.
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I usually just speak in English when I'm on the basketball court. For some reason, my mind never even tried to cross any other language when I'm playing basketball.
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A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.
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One person's barbarity is another person's civilisation.
