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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People should not judge failed love affairs as failed experiences, but as part of the growth process. Something does not have to end well for it to have been one of the most valuable experiences of a lifetime.
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Give the girl an inch and she thinks she's a ruler.
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Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, -it steals away the freshness of life, -it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments, -it shuts our souls to our own youth, -and we are old ere we remember that we have made a fever and a labor of our raciest years.
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I left Guiding Light so many times, they ran out of champagne.
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If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.
