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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Lo importante y lo no importante no son iguales sólo en sus comienzos.
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I went to an audition the other day, they were casting 13 people to be clouds. 14 people showed up, it was overcast.
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William Shatner is living proof that if you are talented and nice, you can work in this industry forever.
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It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
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I like to make my husband like me more, and he likes it when I'm wearing makeup.
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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
