Mary Beard Quotes

When I am making a TV show, I am looking for engagement, not admiration.

Mary Beard

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• I'm very conscious of Miguel Cotto's career... I need to do my part on that night to have victory and create my own legacy in this sport of boxing.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Career
  • Night
  • Victory

• I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Love
  • American
  • Christmas

• Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Mean

• My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.

  

  Washed Out
  • Live
  • Parents
  • Growing

• The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Different
  • Band
  • New

• There were so many groups that I had in college, but I was always the solo singer. But what made it so unusual back in the day was that I was a black girl playing with all these white musicians, and I was also singing rock music on top of it.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Music
  • Black
  • Girl

• When incomes and bonuses decrease, revenues falter, and businesses stumble, it's more important than ever to give - not necessarily more, but in a way that matters more. When incomes are down and wallets are stretched, the effectiveness of our giving is what really counts.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Important
  • Giving
  • Down

• In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Literature

• I believe... we were told that the 'Bluetooth AirPods', whatever they are, can be used on anything that supports Bluetooth audio.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Audio

• When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Time
  • Like
  • First

• Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Generation

• If Christ came back tomorrow, He'd have to change planes in Frankfurt. Modern air travel means less time spent in transit. That time is now spent in transit lounges.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • Air
  • Travel

• The thing about happiness is that it doesnt help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I'm grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I've had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the parts that were less joyous were preparing me, testing me, strengthening me.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Life
  • Up
  • Help

• Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Blessed

• No more stress, now I'm straightNow I get it, now I take time to thinkBefore I make mistakes just for my family's sake part of me left yesterdayThe heart of me is strong todayNo regrets I'm blessed to say that old me dead and gone away

  

  T.I.
  • Time
  • Family
  • Heart

• I'm on the road constantly. I'm a nomad. I don't really have a home right now. I don't identify with one place in particular.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Home
  • Road

• Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

  

  Augustus Y. Napier
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• I think I've had the slowest, most methodical career in the business.

  

  Chris Isaak
  • Business
  • Career

• Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead.

  

  P. D. James
  • Family
  • Death
  • Personality

• The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Different
  • True
  • Nature

• Remember that you are always exactly where you need to be, experiencing what you need to experience so that you can learn what you must learn in order to become the person you need to be to create everything you want for your life. Always.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Experience

• 'Sesame Street' is awesome - not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but because they savvily make it possible to do so with parental engagement, because the show is loaded with references for Mom and Dad.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Kids
  • Dad
  • Mom

• When we launched The Deck, I hoped other networks would take inspiration from it and figure out how to increase engagement while minimizing clutter. I even tried to sell my studio's media clients on the notion of fewer, better-priced, better-targeted ads.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Inspiration
  • Media
  • Engagement

• When I am making a TV show, I am looking for engagement, not admiration.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Engagement