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.
Quotes to Explore
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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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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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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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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Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.
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I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.
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There's something about the expanse of nature that forces you to think clearly.
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Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.
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I realized early on that I was pretty good at organizing. A lot of it was about control. While my friends were out getting hammered at concerts, I was making money. I am a control freak.
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I love nothing more than going to eat by myself with a newspaper.
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I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.
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First it was football, then basketball. I still think about going back to college and playing basketball. Another romantic thing was that I wanted to join the Army, but it was only because I loved the uniforms.
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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.
