Mary Beard Quotes
If you say to a group of women professors, 'Close your eyes and think of a professor,' what they will see is a guy. I will. And I'll stop myself and think, 'Hey, hang on, what am I doing here?'
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.
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Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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I always think Michelle Williams is excellent in her work. And I do love Sofia Coppola. She always creates something so atmospheric. I love Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Andrea Arnold.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I'm blind without my glasses.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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There are too many senior citizens and good residents in Chicago who are sick and tired of having to walk several blocks out of their way when they leave their homes just to avoid the gangs and drug dealers on the street corner.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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I don't rehearse with my actors... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed his actors, and I found out that's allowed... so you film reactions; you don't create them.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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There's not a formula that I'm following; it's just how I feel at the time. For instance, I did a very experimental film called 'Hardcore Henry,' and that was simply because I thought the filmmaker was very interesting and a risk taker. A film like that had never been made before, so I chose to do that at the time.
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I never got to Broadway. I would love to do that.
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Sometimes I think there ought to be a coat of arms for all of us who listen to Oberst's band Bright Eyes past the age of twenty-six. 'With Love and Shame,' the motto would read. The handwriting would be the cramped and tortured scribble of a high school freshman.
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When you grow up as the daughters of George and Laura Bush, you develop a special appreciation for how blessed we are to live in this great country.
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I don't think you can ease yourself into theater. I just thrust myself into it.
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If you say to a group of women professors, 'Close your eyes and think of a professor,' what they will see is a guy. I will. And I'll stop myself and think, 'Hey, hang on, what am I doing here?'
