Bettany Hughes Quotes
Symeon the Sanctified was allowed on to Mount Athos – a eunuch who would then go on to found a monastery of eunuchs in Thessalonika. A sizeable number of patriarchs – the leaders of the Orthodox Church based in Constantinople – were eunuchs. The presence of this third sex – complicating the binary division of male and female – also, arguably, allowed women to enjoy an atypical degree of power in the city, a tradition that endured for 1,500 years, beyond the Ottoman conquest of the city in AD 1453.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
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I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
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What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.
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The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the Arab is generally the better man of the two.
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If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.
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I like hanging around the set and learning how people do things, how the set runs.
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I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.
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I have a Facebook page for me and my friends and a Twitter page.
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If only the people around you know you're an artist, then you're doing something wrong.
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The wonderful thing about writing for theatre is you can go anywhere you want with the language. There are no limits. With film, they frown on language - it's always 'Too many words.'
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An economy open to new concepts and novel ventures is bound to generate unequal gains.
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I only know we loved in vain;I only feel - farewell! farewell!
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There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
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Josephus: I'm Josephus, and I'm the main course over at the Colosseum!
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I've got two places I like to be. Portugal is one.
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In the West, we avoid painful encounters with art by trivialising it, or by familiarising it. Our present obsession with the past has the double advantage of making new work seem raw and rough compared to the cosy patina of tradition, whilst refusing tradition its vital connection to what is happening now.
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Let us, while never forgetting our womanhood, drop all emphasis on sex, and put it on being public servants.
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Symeon the Sanctified was allowed on to Mount Athos – a eunuch who would then go on to found a monastery of eunuchs in Thessalonika. A sizeable number of patriarchs – the leaders of the Orthodox Church based in Constantinople – were eunuchs. The presence of this third sex – complicating the binary division of male and female – also, arguably, allowed women to enjoy an atypical degree of power in the city, a tradition that endured for 1,500 years, beyond the Ottoman conquest of the city in AD 1453.
