"I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault."

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Tanith Lee

#Boards Quotes #Mary Quotes

“I want to be around for a long time, singing and making albums and movies.”
“I'd just like to thank everybody who was involved in the film, especially Brendan Gleeson and Ruaidhri Conroy. And Ruaidhri, I'm sorry that you couldn't be here tonight, but I hope next time they let you into the country.”

Source : Martin McDonagh's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 5, 2006.
“Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“One only really loves from a feminine position.”
“Spaces between the forms, or the negative shapes, play just as great a role as the positives and they enable you to check the accuracy of your drawing. The positives make the negatives and negatives make the positives.”
“I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.”
“Without the United States, there simply would not have been an armed uprising in our country.”
“I get most of my news updates from electronic and social media.”

Source : "LeVar Burton on Bringing 'Reading Rainbow'—the TV Show of Your Childhood—to the Tech of Today". Interview with Benjamin Jackson, www.theatlantic.com. June 20, 2012.

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