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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I tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I've been thinking about something else.
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As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.
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I'm not sure God wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to love, and be loved. But we are like children, thinking our toys will make us happy and the whole world is our nursery. Something must drive us out of that nursery and into the lives of others, and that something is suffering.
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To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense
