Beryl Markham Quotes
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.
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I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.
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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.
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I'm a part of a program called Toyota's Engines of Change Program. The message is that anyone can make a difference in their community or for whatever cause they feel strongly about. Everyone can be an Engine of Change.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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I have to watch the news or my day is not complete.
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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian pizza that's thankfully worlds away from the Super Supreme I used to order at Pizza Hut as a kid.
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Let your children go if you want to keep them.
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In Australia, getting an audition can be a rarity. There just aren't as many opportunities.
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A little oil makes machinery work easy.
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We are all rebellious teenagers. Sometimes we grow out of it, and sometimes we don't.
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I did about 10-12 national commercials and then got one line parts in things like 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and the show 'The Unit.' Got a little part in the movie 'Redbelt' by David Mamet and kept slowly grinding up and then started getting bigger parts in independents and getting noticed by Liz Meriwether.
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Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.
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After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work.
