Marya Mannes Quotes
By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.
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If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
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I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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I'm not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason to act that way. I couldn't even stand to yell at someone if they bumped right into me.
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Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.
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There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
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India absorbs things; India's not a divisive place.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.
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Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
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You can't play having a mental disability. You have to play whatever that person's truth is without any judgement.
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As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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Democrats hate stay-at-home spouses, no matter what gender or gender preference.
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My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.
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They're so boring. They're so pathetic, all those journalists. Most of them are. Most of those kind that write gossip stuff, and most of it's gossip. Things are just invented about your personal life and you just have to take that. It's bullshit. People believe it, though. They just believe everything they read.
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By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
