Freya Stark Quotes
The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues.
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
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As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
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I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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Every day, I wake up and say, 'Good Morning, Jesus.'
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Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies.
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The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
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Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure.
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The only solution for dealing with the IRA is to kill 600 people in one night.
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I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.
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When people think of a Hitchcock movie, it isn't just the visual, it's the sound.
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I think some of that comes with age, with life in general, to try to keep yourself as healthy as possible.
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The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues.
