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Cleopatra Quotes

And make death proud to take us Picture Quote #1

In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar Picture Quote #1

Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent Picture Quote #1

Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents Picture Quote #1

All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise Picture Quote #1

I will not be triumphed over Picture Quote #1

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My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely Picture Quote #1

Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought Picture Quote #1

Fool! Don’t you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you Picture Quote #1

The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra Picture Quote #1

Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There’s always something Picture Quote #1

I really don’t remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on Picture Quote #1

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Stacy Schiff is that rare combination: a first-rate historian and a brilliant storyteller. Using a wide range of sources, she spins straw into gold, conjuring the world of Ptolemaic Egypt in full vibrant color, and returning the voice of one of the most powerful, fascinating, and maligned women in history. Cleopatra is impossible to put down Picture Quote #1

I have never wanted to be a queen! Cleopatra was a role, and I am an actor, so it was fun to play one, but it’s not real Picture Quote #1

Certainly, I am writing as a 21st-century woman, so I am much more inclined to view her as a three-dimensional woman. I think we keep coming up with this stubborn problem of a woman being judged by her appearance rather than her accomplishments. We are much more inclined to ask: was Cleopatra beautiful? Picture Quote #1

Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There’s always something Picture Quote #1

I once interviewed David Herbert Donald, the Lincoln historian, and we talked about how one deals with the secondary sources and the previous biographies. He said something which kept coming back to me as I worked on Cleopatra, which was: ‘There’s no further new material; there are only new questions.’ Picture Quote #1

Cleopatra had one great advantage. She lived at a time when female sovereigns were not anomalies. And when women enjoyed rights they would not again enjoy for another 2,000 years. You could call them early feminists, if I may use a dirty word Picture Quote #1

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Girls have always wanted to be pretty, even in Egyptian times. Cleopatra wore all that eyeliner, you know Picture Quote #1

By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature Picture Quote #1

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And make death proud to take us (Cleopatra Quotes) In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar (Cleopatra Quotes) Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent (Cleopatra Quotes) Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents (Cleopatra Quotes) All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise (Cleopatra Quotes) I will not be triumphed over (Cleopatra Quotes) My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely (Cleopatra Quotes) Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought (Cleopatra Quotes) Fool! Don’t you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you (Cleopatra Quotes) The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra (Cleopatra Quotes) Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There’s always something (Cleopatra Quotes) I really don’t remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on (Cleopatra Quotes) Stacy Schiff is that rare combination: a first-rate historian and a brilliant storyteller. Using a wide range of sources, she spins straw into gold, conjuring the world of Ptolemaic Egypt in full vibrant color, and returning the voice of one of the most powerful, fascinating, and maligned women in history. Cleopatra is impossible to put down (Cleopatra Quotes) I have never wanted to be a queen! Cleopatra was a role, and I am an actor, so it was fun to play one, but it’s not real (Cleopatra Quotes) Certainly, I am writing as a 21st-century woman, so I am much more inclined to view her as a three-dimensional woman. I think we keep coming up with this stubborn problem of a woman being judged by her appearance rather than her accomplishments. We are much more inclined to ask: was Cleopatra beautiful? (Cleopatra Quotes) Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There’s always something. (Cleopatra Quotes) I once interviewed David Herbert Donald, the Lincoln historian, and we talked about how one deals with the secondary sources and the previous biographies. He said something which kept coming back to me as I worked on Cleopatra, which was: ‘There’s no further new material; there are only new questions.’ (Cleopatra Quotes) Cleopatra had one great advantage. She lived at a time when female sovereigns were not anomalies. And when women enjoyed rights they would not again enjoy for another 2,000 years. You could call them early feminists, if I may use a dirty word. (Cleopatra Quotes) Girls have always wanted to be pretty, even in Egyptian times. Cleopatra wore all that eyeliner, you know. (Cleopatra Quotes) By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature. (Cleopatra Quotes)