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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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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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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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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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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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
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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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I lived a pretty chaotic life. I went to England, and I moved around, and there were a lot of things that I was interested in. I wrote poetry. I took photographs. I was a musician and all sorts of things. Nothing brilliant, but I did all these different things.
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Silver nitrate and water in a super soaker," he told her. "My own invention. Ought to be good at twenty feet, kind of like wasp spray." Oh. "You get me the nicest things." "Anybody can get jewelry. Posers
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Well, a lot of our concerts do okay, and I know we still get royalty checks which still isn't that important, but again, I have to just say that we're making our records.
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The right answer is seldom as important as the right question.
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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.
