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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I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
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No one who lives in error is free.
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Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
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Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?
