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.Freya Stark
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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.
Lascelles Abercrombie -
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.
Aaron Huey -
I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
Natascha McElhone -
Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
Yoko Ono -
Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.
Irrfan Khan
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
D. H. Lawrence -
I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
Malorie Blackman -
There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
Damien Chazelle -
Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
Harold E. Hughes -
Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
Jack Bruce Cream -
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.
Carine Roitfeld
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I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.
Rachel Dratch -
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.
Nadine Gordimer -
I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
Kate Winslet -
I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
Abhishek Bachchan -
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.
Faith Evans -
I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.
Adam D'Angelo
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I’m surprised to find absence of explicit anti-Semitism this time. Was a page missing?
Barney Frank -
Normally I sit there in the films really hating watching myself. Loving watching the films, hating watching myself.
Daniel Radcliffe -
I would say just start writing. You've got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you think that perhaps could become your sound, too. I did that with Hemingway, and I thought I was writing just like Hemingway. Then all of a sudden it occurred to me - he didn't have a sense of humor. I don't know anything he's written that's funny.
Elmore Leonard -
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.
Freya Stark