Freya Stark Quotes
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For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski's personal life is a minefield. Her father is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and while one brother is an Obama appointee, the other advises Romney.
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He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
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The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.
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Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.
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If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
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Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea.
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To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic.
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Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
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The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success.
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The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.
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The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction
