Beryl Markham Quotes
No human pursuit achieves dignity unless it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools of your trade, you see that the other things - the experiments, the irrelevant vocations, the vanities you used to hold - were false to you.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out.
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I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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I don't know, I like to go on really different types of dates. Going someplace new or some new part of the city, something that's not your average thing. Something where you just go have an adventure together.
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I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.
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I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.
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At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.
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What I've been conscious of, from the beginning is that I can't be Jil Sander.
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There are apparently three factors that lead to longevity: heredity, habits, and what your wife will let you get away with.
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It is not characteristic of American executives to read books, except books on 'management' and mysteries. ... Those who who do venture into this arena ... are looked upon by their colleagues with mingled awe and incredulity.
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New York is so serious about the creation of work. Everything is happening so fast, it feels like there's another studio, another session on every block, and I love that.
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I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands.
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In college, I wrote maybe three short stories.
Colson Whitehead -
Beauty is a fragile gift.
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Ὡς τἀποκλαῦσαι κἀποδύρασθαι τύχαςἐνταῦθ', ὅπου μέλλοι τις οἴσεσθαι δάκρυπρὸς τῶν κλυόντων, ἀξίαν τριβὴν ἔχει.
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Once winter sets in I must have the sun and warmth. I need to be in the sun - I'm a true island baby.
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No human pursuit achieves dignity unless it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools of your trade, you see that the other things - the experiments, the irrelevant vocations, the vanities you used to hold - were false to you.
