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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You have this special connection with someone if you're their first record or their first concert or their first poster or whatever it is.
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All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
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The official toxicity limit for humans is between one and one and half grams of cocaine depending on body weight. I was averaging five grams a day, maybe more. I snorted ten grams in ten minutes once. I guess I had a high tolerance.
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I know politicians are going to be judged on everything they say but sometimes in the heat of discussion you go a little bit further than you would if it was an absolutely calm, considered, prepared, scripted remark. The statements that need to be taken absolutely as gospel truth are those carefully prepared scripted remarks.
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Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?
