Mary Beard Quotes
I don't want to see a world in which women can communicate on Twitter, but their actual voices are not heard.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.
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I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
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As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.
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We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.
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If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
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For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress - the relentless commercialism, the whining demands, the financial pressure.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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The film world feels like a smaller world than music.
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Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them.
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I don't want to see a world in which women can communicate on Twitter, but their actual voices are not heard.
