Freya Stark Quotes
Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
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Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.
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Your own creations are your own children; you gave life to them, so you’ll always have, if not more passion to them, more connections to them.
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To me, 'selling out' means everyone bought a ticket.
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It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.
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I love what I do, I love my job.
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In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.
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Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.
