Freya Stark Quotes

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

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• The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

  

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• With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
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• The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.

  

  Walter Matthau
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• The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.

  

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• I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

  

  Wendell Berry
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• The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.

  

  Venus Williams
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• No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!

  

  Kate Moss
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• One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
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• My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.

  

  Sam Smith
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• Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
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• Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

  

  Pat Barker
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• Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

  

  Camryn Manheim
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• After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.

  

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• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

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• I am a self-critical perfectionist.

  

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• You can learn more from a person just from their observations and how they see the world. More so than just talking.

  

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• My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

  

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• Genre expectations can kill creativity. If you do something different, it will get hated. The best filmmakers can do everything on the approval list and knock it out of the park. For me, I have a hard time being creative when I have to color in between the lines.

  

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• And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students.

  

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• Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Me
  • Hell
  • Shine

• There are so many different varieties of HIV out there.

  

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• Most of all, I discovered that in order to succeed with a product, you must truly get to know your customers and build something for them.

  

  Marc Benioff
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• The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

  

  Freya Stark
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  • Women
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