Mary Beard Quotes
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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.
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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
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There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
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But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
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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.
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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.
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Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.
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With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a clue.
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I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
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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.
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The inventory goes down the elevator every night.
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I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
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We are anxious and open to all forms of doing business in China.
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Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.
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A person who uses party as a verb is a person who will walk into a shop and walk out wearing a rubber jumpsuit.
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
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Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.
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Grey is my hair colour. I really can't see why I should change it.
