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Adrienne Mayor Quotes

It is said the boundless steppes of Asia gave flight to tales of heroes and heroines because the conditions there are so harsh.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: 1946

Topics

Flight Said Heroes Because Asia

Television has always been our No. 1 competition. But I know firsthand that you can create an experience you can't get on television. I also know that the social experience has an appeal.

Experience Competition You Create

I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient.

God I Am Know Been Guided Am

There is in the DNA of the Italians a bit of madness, which in the overwhelming majority of cases is positive. It is genius. It is talent. It's the masterpieces of art. It's the food, fashion, everything that makes Italy great in the world.

Positive Great Art Food Talent DNA

Being transgender is not just a medical transition.

Medical Transition Transgender Just

'The Wall' doesn't recount a specific soldier's experience in Iraq, but it captures the spirit of many experiences that were shared with me and with Aaron Taylor-Johnson and with John Cena.

Experience Me Wall Spirit Soldier

We took over with 'Leverage' three warehouses, and now four with 'The Librarians,' and turned them into proper sound stages with sound doors and all the lights. We now have control of four real, proper-sized sound stages. The problem is they're dark and empty half of the year because there aren't enough productions coming into Oregon.

Control Doors Problem Enough Year

Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.

Character You First First Impression

Those who want to be serious photographers, you're really going to have to edit your work. You're going to have to understand what you're doing. You're going to have to not just shoot, shoot, shoot. To stop and look at your work is the most important thing you can do.

Annie Leibovitz

Work Doing You Look Stop Understand

The burdens of childhood are as hard to bear as the crosses that weigh us down later in life, while the happinesses of childhood are tame compared with those of our maturer years.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Life Childhood Down Bear Hard Years

Movies and TV are America's No. 1 export. So if our No. 1 export is all male, all white, then there's only one point of view. And I just think it's really important that as Americans - I'm a new American, but I am an American - that we don't portray ourselves to the world so one-sided and exclusive.

I Am World Think American View New

I put on the Hank Williams and the Patsy Cline and the Rosemary Clooney on vinyl - I'm not trying to be some cool indie-rock person, I just love the way it sounds - and throw on a T-shirt and jeans. In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans.

Love Cool Texas Trying Person Way

I go into my workroom seven mornings a week. There will only be one or two mornings a week where it seems to be going well, but to earn those days you have to go through slow, slodgy days where your mind feels like porridge.

Mind Slow Week You Go Will

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