Mary Renault Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
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The thing that has always struck me is that there has always been a bit of a hole at YouTube when it comes to authenticity, human emotion, fun and play.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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The gratification of desire is not happiness.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
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Did I shop Kmart for clothing? No, I didn't. But I loved that I could be totally involved in the hangtags, the buttons, the commercials and with the designers. Something in my head said 'Yes.' I was adventurous.
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I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
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In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.
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I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.
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Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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I like dressing sexy, and I like having a good time.
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I like black because it is a vacant space.
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The first programming assignment I had in high school was to find the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I thought it would be cooler to write a program to get the teacher's password and all the other students' passwords. And the teacher gave me an A and told the class how smart I was.
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I was trying to hold up a mirror to this country, to reflect the past years or so, and the varying degrees in which we've been affected by the war(s) that doesn't seem to end. And we've all been affected somehow, even if we have no connection to the military, even if we don't know anyone who's killed or been killed. No one escapes something so large.
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Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist.
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It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
