Mary Renault Quotes
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These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.
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What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?
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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.
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We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
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I was obsessed with Hollywood from the time I was a kid. I always knew I wanted to live in Los Angeles.
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In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
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The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.
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May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
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When you come through a business education, a lot of what they teach you is to make decisions through analysis, and logic and rationale, and I'm a big believer in that. But I also believe in the power of instinct. The truth is you're never going to have a perfect answer or view of how it is going to work.
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Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.
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I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some grandbabies.
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There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass.
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I'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions.
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I got really good input up until the age of 11, which is perfect. That's when adolescence starts, when I would have really wanted to rebel. Up until that point, though, it didn't feel like doctrine, and it gave me a great moral structure.
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'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible.
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I am very happy with what I see. The grey, the not-so grey and the camouflaged That's life. One has to live with it.
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An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.
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I think any player, as a rookie coming into any sport, has to prove themselves.
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The distance between me and my readers is the Internet. I can communicate with them and respond to every email I get or every mention on Twitter.
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Around 1998, I went through lots of pressures and struggles. My children got married within eight months of each other, my son was diagnosed with cancer and went through major surgery and radiation, my mother had five life-threatening hospitalizations where I stayed with her, my husband's dental office burned to the ground.
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But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners.
