Freya Stark Quotes
The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them.
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I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.
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To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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I am a very selfish person.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
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Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams.
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If you want to get along, go along.
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There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
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I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
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My sole aim is to leave everything in suspension, in flux, in order to avoid our community solidifying into a conventional academy. Our initial resources may be few, but our spirits are high, receptive, and excited, and that seems to me to be the most important thing right now.
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I've never been driven to just be a celebrity or just get me on TV. Never ever. What's always driven me is being successful and being good at what I do.
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If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it.
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people.
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The world needs many more humanitarians than it needs warriors, but there can be none of the former without enough of the latter.
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The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them.
