Mary Beard Quotes
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I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.
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Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
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I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there's a story to tell and I can tell it through my body and my voice.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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The connection between education and a healthy economy is critical.
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I am often struck by the anxious inferiority many well-educated British people display towards the U.S., particularly Londoners dazzled by New York, when many postcolonials are accustomed to regarding Britain's old imperial cosmopolis as the true capital of the western world.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks song. I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.
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I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
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I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.
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For me, Melania represents America. We're all reluctantly married to Donald Trump now. She is a vehicle to making fun of him. I can't do a Donald Trump impersonation, but I can impersonate her.
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I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.
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You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
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Poisonous frogs feast on insects that don't even have names. Tropical lizards disappear into the cracks of trees whose branches spread out as wide as their trunks climb high. This is the real Florida, as it was before people, and probably will be after us, too.
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My comedy isn't going to solve problems; I'm not that deep.
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It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.
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The Republicans are looking after the financial interests of the wealthiest individuals in this country.
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I made the decision to end business relationships with the Trump Organization simply because it was the right thing to do. No one approached me, asked me or pressured me to take this action.
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Do a good job. You don't have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work - then try to trump it.
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My husband and I are just really laid back people.
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I always have melodies flowing in my head - whether I'm just at home, at the mall, at a restaurant or wherever. I'm always humming along to the random melodies that form in my head. My friends always ask me, 'What are you singing?' and I'll be like, 'I don't know!'
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I knew that Trump was ghastly. I knew I'd vote for Hillary if I had a vote.
