Beryl Markham Quotes
A map says to you. Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not... I am the earth in the palm of your hand.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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I never judge my own songwriting. It's just my heart. What's there to judge about your own heart?
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The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
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It's good to be proud of your heritage and your culture, but pride can be perverted.
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People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.
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You're only as good as your last haircut.
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Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.
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When I am with my family, then I can just sort of switch off. It's kind of weird, because I go back and I go into this bedroom that I have had since I was a teenager. It is like this parallel universe, because one minute I am on the red carpet and then the next I am hiding out in this room I have had since I was 15.
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I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.
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Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!
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I think sexuality, especially, is one of those fluid things where oftentimes we find who we are through certain things that happen in our lives.
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When people think of me initially, they remember me as 'Akeelah.' Sometimes it can be frustrating to be remembered at an age that you've outgrown.
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Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.
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Nobody can claim the name of Pedro, nobody is Rosa or María, all of us are dust or sand, all of us are rain under rain. They have spoken to me of Venezuelas, of Chiles and Paraguays; I have no idea what they are saying. I know only the skin of the earth and I know it has no name.
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A map says to you. Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not... I am the earth in the palm of your hand.
