Beryl Markham Quotes
One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day that will be an airborne life.
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I'd like to do something with Michael Buble, Harry Connick Jr., Tim McGraw, Justin Timberlake, and Gwen Stefani.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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For me, soccer was a dance.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
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I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.
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In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
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The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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I love 'Titanic' and the idea that you're kind of rooting for Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet to survive despite the fact that you know that they're not going to.
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I'm a huge fan of the Clintons. I love Hillary; I love Bill.
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I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
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Putting out music as it's made, versus holding it until an album's finished, allows me to be more timely and maintain balance.
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I miss the days when girls would wear full long dresses and just stand onstage and sing. That's what I'm trying to bring back: that timeless element. I want to create music that people will be listening to in fifty years, you know?
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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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If defectors say they had high-level connections in Pyongyang or came from an esteemed institution in the North, they can gain better employment in the South, where life can be very difficult for North Koreans.
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You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas
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I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.
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Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.
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One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day that will be an airborne life.
