Stacy Schiff Quotes

We're talking about, essentially, the Roman historians, who wrote Cleopatra into the story mostly so that they could talk about the rise of Rome. And that is one of the problems, of course, in recounting her life. She's only ever apparent to us when there is a Roman in the room, or when her story intersects with the rise of Rome.

Stacy Schiff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 26, 1961

Topics

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I will work as hard as I do because I love it.

Joan Rivers

WorkLoveWillHardBecauseI Love

I'm not against making new fans, but I'm not going to go out of my way to pander to someone and try to make them like me; that's not who we are. It's not as if we're fighting to find an audience - we have our audience, and anybody else is definitely welcome.

Andy Biersack

WelcomeMeFightingSomeoneFindGo

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

Michael Bloomberg

ExperienceNew YorkCityAmerican

Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.

John Thorn

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I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.

Trey Anastasio

StepSongUnderstandHalfEffect

The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.

Martin Scorsese

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Here's the deal on Texas. It's big. So big, there's about five distinct and different places here, separated from one another geologically, topographically, botanically, ethnically, culturally, and climatically.

Molly Ivins

TexasPlacesBigHereDifferent

This is my life! I'm not getting a lot of sleep, but I am getting a lot of frequent-flyer miles.

Lucas Hedges

LifeSleepI AmMy LifeMilesAm

For a while there, our writing got really edgy... I've always written about experiences, so when your life gets a bit crazy, you start to write songs that are a bit edgy.

Dolores O'Riordan

LifeCrazyWritingStartYouEdgy

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

Diana Vreeland

ImportantThe Most ImportantAtom

I think I need to play somebody who expresses themselves and is able to communicate on a more open level, something really different.

Claire Foy

ThinkPlayMoreNeedOpenSomething

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

William Hazlitt

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