Mary Renault Quotes
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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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'Fight Master' is a show that Spike came up with. Obviously, Spike has a vested interest in Bellator, which is filling a void that was created when the UFC and 'The Ultimate Fighter' left and went to Fox. I think this fills a huge piece of the puzzle for the folks at Spike, in terms of demographics and what programming they like to do.
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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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Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
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How small we humans are. All our scrambling around, trying to buttress ourselves against death. All our efforts to insulate ourselves against uncertainty with codes of behavior and meaningless busyness.
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War, war is still the cry,-"war even to the knife!"
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It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
