Mary Beard Quotes
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate that workforce.
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I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.
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The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
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I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.
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My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.
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It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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I'm blind without my glasses.
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I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.
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Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
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There cannot be too many glorious women.
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Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.
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Every time I think I know what's right and wrong, I end up being wrong. All I want to do is explore. I want to see what people would do. I say, 'What would this person do in this situation?' and I write it down. I'm not writing manifestos of my political views.
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I was just very conscious that I could either bore people by having the music be similar for too long, or I could just wear them out and bore them in a different way by having it changing too much every minute or two minutes. So, there was that kind of balance to get right.
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My mom was born before women had the vote in general elections in England.
