Mary Renault Quotes
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I read part of it all the way through.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
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I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.
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The verdict of the world is conclusive.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
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For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money.
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I got my own sound; nobody sounds like me.
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The strategy we need to pursue is one of recovering our time - to push back on our hours of work. We need to form a new alliance between feminist groups, labor unions, child advocates, progressive corporations, and the federal government insofar as it's willing to pursue a family-friendly agenda.
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I prefer movies because the money is better and certainly because you really know where you stand when you are making movies, and I have made a lot of them: 50-something - I don't know.
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We Americans unite faith and freedom in asserting that our liberties are your gift, God, not that of government.
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Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.
