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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Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.
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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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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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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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Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
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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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The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out.
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Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves.
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I don't care if the average guy on the street really knows what I'm like, as long as he knows I'm not really a mean, vicious guy. My friends and family know what I'm really like. That's what's important.
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I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.
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I have talked to more people who are in politics who have said to me, "[House of Cards] is closer than you can imagine. It's the most accurate description of how politics actually works that we've ever seen." I mean, West Wing - beautiful, wonderful idea of how democracy should work. But I've had more people in politics say they think House of Cards is closer. I - don't know whether to take that as a compliment or a sad state of affairs.
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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
