Germaine Greer Quotes
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I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.
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The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.
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I have 18 cars, but I never had a Rolls-Royce.
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If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.
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At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.
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I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.
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Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
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When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.
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All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
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Endurance is mind over matter.
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Metal music is the only art form that is totally dependent for its success on the idea that idiots buy cheap trash are getting ripped off.
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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement.
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I experienced bullying a lot. I was an only child, and I was kind of a small kid with a big mouth, and so I always got myself in trouble.
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I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA.
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The power of art can open our minds.
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Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.
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My stand-up is more like how I am in real life. I don't really do a character thing in stand-up. It's just a bunch of sentences that are supposed to be funny.
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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
