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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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.
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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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Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule.
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I am a fiscal conservative.
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I like analyzing and managing large-scale transaction-processing platforms, recordkeeping administration, and brokerage trading services.
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Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.
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When a woman speaks to a man about the love she feels for another man, she is not liked.
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Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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There are three things that people pick up on the instant they walk into your home on Thanksgiving. They will be able to feel the human energy. They'll smell the food. And they will see, instantly, the table.
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I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
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Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.
