Freya Stark Quotes
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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Part of what we talk about is, toughness is a talent.
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What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.
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About 13-14 years ago, I went back to my alma mater, Fairfax High School, and ran into the music teacher. She invited me to come speak to the kids about the viability of a music career. When I went into the room where I used to play every day in a big orchestra, they had nothing!
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I'm a normal guy.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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Belief contains so many truths pertaining to God's Names and the realities contained in the universe that the most perfect science, knowledge, and virtue is belief and knowledge of God originating in a belief based on argument and investigation.
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Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.
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I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
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Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
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I would love to do my own stunts, but stunts are not something I have a lot of experience with.
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There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.
