Mary Renault Quotes
In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, writer. You know, we're just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.
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It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
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I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.
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It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason just couldn't manage to integrate into Western society, even though they had good opportunities for advancement.
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There can be no question of political status for someone who is serving a sentence for crime. Crime is crime is crime. It is not political. To give concessions on political status would put many people in jeopardy.
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It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.
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Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.
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In the midst of hardship, it was the music that restored my soul.
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In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.
