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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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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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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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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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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Party is the madness of many, for the gain of a few.
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«The worse the better for all and the worse for all the better, the better for me, yours, political benefit.»
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The Devil is an Ass! fool'd off! and beaten!
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The once-seen does not exist yet. The always seen no longer exists.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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When I was beginning, a young actor could go from repertory company to repertory company. I did that and loved it. I was also lucky.
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From a branding standpoint, the show represents only a fraction of our business, and the impact you actually have on the consumer is super, super tiny. I mean, what about the pre-collection? That is just as important as the show.
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I'm really still a child of the Forties. I still think about it a lot, about the repercussions of armed conflict. Until 1953 we had rationing. We couldn't buy meat, we couldn't buy pleasurable goods like cigarettes and sweets. I didn't starve - my family were lucky - but I knew what it was like standing in line waiting for foodstuffs.
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No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.
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One person's barbarity is another person's civilisation.
