Freya Stark Quotes
The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it we draw provision for our journey, the collected wisdom whose harvests are all ours to reap and carry with us, though we may never live again in the fields that grew them.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.
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At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.
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And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.
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Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel.
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The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux.
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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.
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Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it we draw provision for our journey, the collected wisdom whose harvests are all ours to reap and carry with us, though we may never live again in the fields that grew them.
