Beryl Markham Quotes
But, for a little while, this is the place for us -- a good place too--a place of good omen, a place of beginning things--and of ending things I never thought would end.
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
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With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.
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Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
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Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.
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There's a certain freedom in writing when you don't know if you'll ever have an audience.
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That's usually how I get to know strangers - get inappropriately touchy. Once they've experienced the awkwardness of you being way too close for comfort, after that, it all gets easy.
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I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.
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My bucket list is pretty much checked off. But oh, we should play in space! Let's do that. We'll play in space, up on a satellite somewhere.
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My caravan was like a café and it [had] nice light because the windows were on both sides. It was a good place to photograph.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
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The mere fact of having a Security Council meeting at ministerial level will send out a very sharp message indeed to the Syrians.
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But, for a little while, this is the place for us -- a good place too--a place of good omen, a place of beginning things--and of ending things I never thought would end.
