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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However political parties may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
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Before my first child was born, I had nothing going on professionally really, and it's been a very blessed period of creativity for me since he arrived. It's very surreal. It's almost as if the babies are out there pulling strings somewhere, deciding what kind of life they want to be born into.
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A cold wind raced across the surrounding fields of wild grass, turning the land into a heaving dark-green ocean. It sighed up through the branches of cherry trees and rattled the thick leaves. Sometimes a cherry would break loose, tumble in the gale, fall and split, filling the night with its fragrance. The air was iron and loam and growth. He walked and tried to pull these things into his lungs, the silence and coolness of them. But someone was screaming, deep inside him. Someone was talking.
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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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Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?
