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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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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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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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.
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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.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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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.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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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.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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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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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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I like to undress women - not to dress them. You know, like Manet's 'Olympia' or Helmut Newton's photographs - naked women with shoes. This is what I am trying to do.
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Being a mom to my son has taken precedence over everything in my life, and I think that's the order it should be... It's a great challenge that I don't think's ever gonna stop.
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My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue.
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Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with it.
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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.
