Beryl Markham Quotes
A life has to move or it stagnates. Even this life, I think. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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Acting's boring.
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I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.
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I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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I think this last film I finished, 'The Butler,' is the closest I will come to as a work-for-hire.
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Where every moment is about truth and I think it's a great challenge every night. That's what really drove me to wanting to do theatre, and it's great.
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End rhymes are not enough. Every word-sound in a poem should find an echo in another, neighbouring word's sound to achieve what Ezra Pound called melopoeia. (This is something like what the Welsh call Cynghanned.)
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The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.
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A life has to move or it stagnates. Even this life, I think. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday.
