Freya Stark Quotes
To awaken quite alone in a strange town, is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
Freya Stark
Quotes to Explore
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
Karen Abbott
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.
Uma Thurman
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I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
Hale Irwin
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The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!
Fidel Castro
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
Cameron Diaz
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
Adam Beach
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I like doing stuff like, for instance, in the 'Leave the Night On' video, I had on a plain white T-shirt. I just wanted to do something to it to make it a little different, so I just cut a big strip out of the side, from the shirttail up to my armpit, and cut a big red strip out of another T-shirt and just sewed it in there.
Sam Hunt
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I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.
Jack Davenport
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I don't read the critics.
Olivier Dahan
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As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.
Ira Sachs
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We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.
Pablo Neruda
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The good thing about being an actress is that it's very children-friendly. I can work for three months, and then I can have six months off.
Gal Gadot
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You do develop a taste as an actress: Chekhov, Ayckbourn: it's the combination of comedy and human drama. I would never want to do anything without comedy.
Katherine Parkinson
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Strong racial pride always entails intense awareness of an inferior other. For the North Koreans, foreigners are inferior - even the friendly ones.
Brian Reynolds Myers
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
Ira Sachs
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To awaken quite alone in a strange town, is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
Freya Stark
