Freya Stark Quotes
Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.
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When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
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There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.
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I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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Our players are mad, but it's good mad.
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We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
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Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated.
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Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.
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Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.
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That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
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The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.
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Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.
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Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.
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I love moments in film where there's no dialogue, and somebody communicates something with a look that kills you. That's why I love going to the cinema.
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.
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I'm not in control of my fate, and that's a good thing.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.
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I'm a songwriter first.
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We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering.
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Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner to be released, but householders entertain no desire to be relieved from the ties of family. When a man's passion is aroused nothing prevents him from ruining himself. Even into the jaws of a tiger will he jump. Those who are thus drowned in the filth of passion are called the ignorant. Those who are able to overcome it are saintly Arhats.
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Even today every year we lose an awful lot of young people, teenagers, who take their own lives because they're - they are gay or transgender.
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Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.
