Mary Beard Quotes

There is no way, absolutely no way, that I would want people to stop reading the 'Odyssey.' But I want them to read it with their eyes open. To notice it and then to think what it says about us.

Mary Beard

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EyesPeopleReadingThinkStopWant

When I was in high school, I had a notebook that I filled up with rules about lying. It must have been a hundred pages long - one hundred pages of rules about lying!

Jesse Ball

SchoolHigh SchoolLongRulesLying

I don't plan anything out, and I don't write in chronological order. The emotional tenor is what guides me, but a lot of it is feeling my way through the dark. That's okay if you have unlimited time to work and stumble upon things in a delightful way, but under a deadline, it can be really stressful.

Jenny Han

WorkTimeMePlanYouDark

I'm concerned about heart disease. I've raised money to fight heart disease; my dad died of it.

Anderson Cooper

HeartMoneyFightHeart DiseaseDied

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

Maya Angelou

CommunicationWritingTwoDifferent

I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.

Robert Redford

LifeTodayChildrenPeopleMy Life

A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.

Anna Garlin Spencer

WifeWomanObstaclesYouSheOnce

I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.

Matt Damon

LoveFearHopeGreatJobMan

Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other human concerns. Semantics is about the relation of words to reality - the way that speakers commit themselves to a shared understanding of the truth, and the way their thoughts are anchored to things and situations in the world.

Steven Pinker

TruthWordsThoughtsWorldReality

I guess because you study the character and you do all those things. But when it comes down to it, it's still my performance, it's still my interpretation. I'm not going to, you know, be a clone - well, I was a clone of Richard Dean Anderson!

Michael Welch

CharacterPerformanceYouDownKnow

I love being in the gym and am training six days a week; I do a lot of high-intensity interval training so that my heart rate gets really high, and I practice, as I'm doing that, taking really deep breaths, and that really helps in a song and in a style of music where you have to sing long, flowing lines.

Joshua Henry

LoveMusicHeartStyleTrainingYou

I'm at the beginning of it. I'm Elektra's last job before the story kicks off.

Jason Isaacs

JobBeginningStoryLastOffKicks

See, I'm fortunate that I get around a lot because of my movie business.

Chuck Zito

BusinessSeeFortunateBecauseGet

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