Beryl Markham Quotes
The lion began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.
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Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
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Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.
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I love Clint Eastwood, and I wish to work with him again. He's completely irreverent about everything, including his own beautiful work.
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I don't know what a softball question is. All I know is I have no agenda. I ask short questions, and I listen to the answer.
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Pectus est enim quod disertos facit, et vis mentis.
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I am not an action painter. Each painting is an act. The result of action and the fulfillment of action.. .No painting stops with itself, is complete of itself. It is a continuation of previous paintings and is renewed in successive ones..
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Joy Division finished the 1970s on a high. Our debut album, 'Unknown Pleasures,' was doing well; we'd just finished a hugely enjoyable and successful tour. The band's profile was higher than it had ever been, and it seemed to be growing by the day.
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One of the things I love about the character development in 'Power' is Courtney A. Kemp's subversive use of stereotype.
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Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.
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This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities they have, their greatest fear, I don't actually see their faces.
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I'd like to think I'm actually a nice person in real life.
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I'm a person who likes habit and knowing what my job is.
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I've always felt that writing can be learned but not really taught. The best thing somebody can do for you is to put the right book in your hands at the right time. I grew up in a family where the right book was always being put in my hands.
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The United States government does not authorise or condone torture of detainees. Torture, and conspiracy to commit torture, are crimes under US law, wherever they may occur in the world.
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[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.
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I've got a friend who is a lion tamer. He used to be a school teacher till he lost his nerve.
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Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
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Vamps who are dying, or think they are, give a piercing, eardrum-bursting shriek, like the love child of a screech owl and a mountain lion on crystal meth, amplified like a seventies rock band.
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The lion began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.
