Adrienne Mayor Quotes

It's sort of fair to say that Amazons, both as reality and as a dream of equality, have always been with us; it's just that sometimes that fiery Amazon spirit is hidden from view or even suppressed.

Adrienne Mayor

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If you are going to work for the first time, keep your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open. Listen, watch - and don't forget what you see.

Jimmy Savile

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What is crucial is there be laws.

Andre Weil

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There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What's the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it's exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That's really cool. That's the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

Matthew McConaughey

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Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.

Mickey Spillane

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That's nice, to be compared to Joanna Lumley. She played my mother once in 'Ella Enchanted.' I was one of the ugly sisters, and she was the stepmother, so that was great. I'll take that comparison, thank you.

Lucy Punch

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It's funny. When I saw the script in my inbox and it said 'Sparkle,' I thought, 'For real? It's really called 'Sparkle?' I was wondering, too, how does 'Jordin Sparks as Sparkle' sound?

Jordin Sparks

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No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?

Christian Bale

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Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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When I give talks like the one I'm going to give at the Changing Advertising Summit, one of the points I often make to the audience is that I'm not one of those speakers who stands in front of the audience and pontificates - everything I talk about I'm actually doing myself. I'm living it.

Cindy Gallop

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Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.

Bob Edwards

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I become absolutely reclusive when I'm not working, to the point where I question whether I can actually do it again.

Anthony Warlow

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Big challenges are an accumulation of small challenges.

Anne Wojcicki

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