Freya Stark Quotes
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I'm not saving lives.
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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Since Kennedy's death, the nation has not seen, in any of his successors, his cosmopolitan intellectualism or the oratorical eloquence with which he sought to lead the nation by the power of his words.
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Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
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The words I overuse are all adverbs.
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The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.
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If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
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From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade teacher.
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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
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Tone matters more than words.
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Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
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It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.
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I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.
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I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.
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I've never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn't suit me.
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Words are all we have.
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Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.
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I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future.
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Most of the bio men on earth were born to women, so it's pretty ordinary! But I think because I had come from a matriarchy - my father died when I was young, and I only have a sister and a stepsister - when I told my mom and my sister that I was having a boy, they were both like, "That does not compute within our family relation!" It was like, "Girls only here!" Now that all seems very strange to me.
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I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation.
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How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself... I'm very happy to be Oprah with salsa and not Donahue in drag.
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words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them.
