Beryl Markham Quotes
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
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I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody.
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American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.
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I get to have Sunday lunch at my mum's, pick my nephew up from school now and then: it's a very normal life.
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Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?
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It's not longer 'Look what I can do, I can do it better then you.' It's just I am.
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You are not born racist. You are born into a racist society. And like anything else, if you can learn it, you can unlearn it. But some people choose not to unlearn it, because they're afraid they'll lose power if they share with other people. We are afraid of sharing power. That's what it's all about.
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The only hard step in building up my fortune was the first thousand dollars. After that it was easy.
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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
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Directing is much more satisfying to me than acting.
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Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.
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The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.
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I have a lot faith in the younger generation of music lovers. Youth isn't living in the past; if somebody tells them that there's something better than what they have, they're going to check it out. And if they like it, they're going to get it. I'm not worried about the youth. Young people aren't just looking back, they are also looking forward.
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Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
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At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by the highest public office we attained in our lifetime, if that were true the current president George W. Bush would hold as much esteem as Franklin Roosevelt in our country, and Nelson Mandela in his. That cannot be the case. Rather, we will each be judged by the mark we've left on others.
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Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?
