Mary Beard Quotes

Grey is my hair colour. I really can't see why I should change it.

Mary Beard

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I was about 10, and I was supposed to be playing the piano at the school concert, and I got up in front of the whole school and said, 'I'm sorry. I'm changing the agenda. I want to play some songs I've written.'

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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I would say I grew up listening a lot to Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland and Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. I grew up listening to those because my parents were kind of into folk music.

Melora Hardin

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There are no words to describe what it would mean making the Olympic team.

Max Aaron

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Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.

Matt Drudge

SuccessMeanOutsiderBecauseStill

I don't wish ill will on anybody.

Michael Douglas

WishWillAnybodyIll

In the European tradition, rivers are seen as divisions between peoples. But in the Aboriginal tradition, rivers are seen as the glue, the highway, the linkage between people, not the separation. And that's the history of Canada: our rivers and lakes were our highways.

John Ralston Saul

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At the typewriter you find out who you are.

Tom Robbins

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Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

WorkInfluenceThinkBecauseI Think

I love 'River's Edge.'

Jon Watts

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I definitely asked too many questions of my teachers and was probably a bit facetious at times.

Johnny Flynn

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I'm very insecure.

Christina Ricci

VeryInsecure

Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.

Chris Ware

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