Adrienne Mayor Quotes
I think the key to the whole appeal of Amazons is the egalitarian society. There was once a time and place where equality was taken for granted - it was logical and necessary - and I think most people can get the message that if it happened once, it could happen again.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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My health is fine.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
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After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.
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I talk about Beyonce too much. I am a diehard.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.
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The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ears that the rarest music does. It depends on your appetite for sound. Just as a crust is sweeter to a healthy appetite than confectionery to a pampered or diseased one.
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Having women work with men is like having a grizzly bear work with salmon . . . dipped in honey.
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I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
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You know, every year 'Torchwood' has become something a little different than it was before. It's still sci-fi, but it doesn't just deal with spaceships and aliens all the time, because we've done that. Our science fiction is more psychological.
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I think the key to the whole appeal of Amazons is the egalitarian society. There was once a time and place where equality was taken for granted - it was logical and necessary - and I think most people can get the message that if it happened once, it could happen again.
