Mary Renault Quotes
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My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.
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I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.
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It's very good for you, riding. You know how every model is like, 'I do yoga.' Well, I find horses to have the same effect, in that you have to put your ego aside and concentrate on making the horse do the things you want it to do, and move in the way you want it to move - particularly if you're doing dressage.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.
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I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
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I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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As a songwriter, we're looking for a good story, and we're always looking to push the limits.
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Any 'network neutrality' rule should be designed to forbid phone or cable companies from controlling the Internet.
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Certainly the Australians were buried in Korea. But I think that from Vietnam on, all the killed were brought home to America or to Australia, in our case.
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I'm afraid I don't have a very pragmatic or unromantic view of props. I don't imbue them with any great sense of mystery or anything.
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And the cloud that took the form(When the rest of Heaven was blue)Of a demon in my view.
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When we serve the great, they are our destiny.
