Freya Stark Quotes
To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.
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The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.
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I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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I'm a natural blonde!
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.
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I don't think music is done by any means. I would love to do it again but it's finding the right thing.
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There are certain things in 'Twilight'... As much as I'm proud of that movie and I do like it, I feel like maybe I brought too much of myself to the character. I feel like I really know Bella now. But most readers feel like they know Bella because it's a first-person narrative.
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Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea.
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Once you assume your right to interfere in other people's problems they become in some ways more of a worry than your own, for with your own you can at least do what you think best, but other people always show such a persistent tendency to do the wrong thing.
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To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense
