Freya Stark Quotes
Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't do impressions of my folks. When I'm doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you're laughing, I'm thinking, 'When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?'
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.
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I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.
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I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many sorts which are okay, like the ones I think which most of us have in bed at night before we fall asleep, when we can see all sorts of patterns or faces and scenes.
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I'm okay. Nobody's bothering me. Everyone's very kind, and very polite. I don't feel like my whole life changed.
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No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.
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I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.
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The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.
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Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles.
