Mary Beard Quotes

Grey is my hair colour. I really can't see why I should change it.

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• When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Movie
  • Child
  • See

• Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Running
  • Wife
  • Congress

• There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Time
  • Man
  • Situation

• I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Book

• To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Long
  • Faith

• With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a clue.

  

  Sam Simon
  • People
  • Know
  • See

• I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Player
  • Baseball
  • Professional

• I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Audience
  • Wonderful
  • Hearts

• The inventory goes down the elevator every night.

  

  Fairfax Cone
  • Night
  • Down
  • Inventory

• Reducing caloric intake is the only proven method of extending life. If caloric intake is reduced to 20 percent below maintenance, you can extend your lifespan considerably.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • You
  • Percent

• Both me and Ishmeet were very naughty. We used to have my grandfather's swords in the house. We used to take all these swords and take all the showpieces Mom had and slice them one by one. He actually locked my nana in the kitchen once for two hours.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • House
  • Mom
  • Kitchen

• Imagine trying to learn without a dry place to sleep, eat, and do homework. Children cannot succeed in school if their lives out of school are in total chaos.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Children
  • Trying
  • School

• Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Me
  • New

• If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Game
  • Play
  • Ready

• We are anxious and open to all forms of doing business in China.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Business
  • Doing
  • Open

• Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Lie

• Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Best
  • Cool

• Just before I auditioned for 'The X Factor,' there was nothing in my diary at all. I had no shows; nothing was happening. It was make-or-break time for me, and I had to consider doing another career altogether.

  

  Fleur East
  • Time
  • Career
  • Me

• There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Soul
  • Noble
  • Scenery

• The stuff that I learned on 'Sons,' the education of how to tell stories, was part of that mythology. It's hard to look at it and go, 'Oh, if I knew this, I would have done it this way,' because the fact is I like to think that all that sort of unraveled as it was supposed to.

  

  Kurt Sutter
  • Done
  • Education

• Of all the doctors I have known, psychoanalysts, a congregation of lay priests with bible, rites, and the faithful, constitute the most sinister, the most ridiculous, the most unwholesome of the species.

  

  Antonio Lobo Antunes
  • Bible
  • Doctors
  • Psychoanalysts

• My mother died when I was two years old; that's why I have so many daddy issues. And that's why my relationship with my dad is so strong.

  

  Diego Luna
  • Why
  • Mother
  • Strong

• Grey is my hair colour. I really can't see why I should change it.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Why
  • Hair