Mary Beard Quotes

I think most people gain some sense of how to look at a painting, but no one ever teaches you how to look at a piece of silver.

Mary Beard

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PeoplePaintingThinkYouLookGain

An orchard can grow pastured poultry underneath. A beef cattle or sheep farm can run pastured poultry behind the herbivores, like the egret on the rhino's nose.

Joel Salatin

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The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government, naturally suggest the propriety of proclaiming it in such a manner as that the people may be universally informed of it.

John Hancock

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I wasn't setting out to write a documentary; if I had, I would have done it in a completely different way. I was asked to write a drama that would appeal to a big audience in America that had no knowledge or interest in The Tudors at all.

Michael Hirst

KnowledgeAmericaDramaDoneWay

Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film.

Michael Apted

QualityI CanNowWillBecomeNext

The only thing I rely on is caffeine.

Amanda Knox

CaffeineOnlyRelyThe Only Thing

Different people work different ways.

Tony Gilroy

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It's good to be busy. I prefer that than sitting back and enjoying life.

Roger Taylor

LifeGoodBusyBackSittingThan

You have to want to be in the company of those you're making films about.

Mira Nair

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The whole - it's the economy's bad. It's bad for everybody. I have my own comedy club. I opened it three years ago in a horrible economy. I created jobs. And we just started breaking even after a year and a half, barely. For that entire time, I have had to pay the difference of what we owe in rent and taxes and everything out of my own pocket.

Jon Lovitz

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There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.

Dieter Rams

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I think stories can grow out of the visual. It can be an engine for literacy.

Chris Riddell

ThinkGrowOutEngineLiteracy

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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