"Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater."

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Source : "Interview with Stacy Schiff, author of 'Cleopatra'". Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. December 5, 2010.

Stacy Schiff

#Rome Quotes #Play Quotes #Ambitious Quotes

“Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.”
“Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”
“Take it from me, marriage isn't a word - it's a sentence.”

Source : 'The Crowd' (1928 film)
“I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.”
“I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.”
“It's physics. Pure physics, I'm falling fast and faster still. So fall with me. Fall down with me. And stay.”
“My dream... was to be an eclectic knowledge-gathering person.”
“Our ideology is intolerant...and peremptorily demands...the complete transformation of public life to its ideas.”

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