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Freya Stark Quotes

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: January 31, 1893 - May 9, 1993

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Fear Pain Someone Debt Sorrow Us

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

Past Movies Never Studying Years

I think I was a bit naive when I was younger. I don't know what it was: I sort of felt tunnel vision - I didn't really have peripheral vision or see the world and what was happening. I'm much more worldly, and I believe that I'm much more grounded in my body than I probably was when I was younger.

Vision World Believe Think Body See

I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved occupation, so he didn't have to enlist. My mother was a housewife. She worked in a bank before marrying my father.

Father Mother Born She Bank Days

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

Philosophy Nothing Discretion

Keep your mouth shut and see what's happening around you. Don't finish people's sentences for them. Don't just hear what they say, but also how they behave while they're saying it. That was great training for writing.

Great Training People Writing Saying

I've done movies that have mostly feminine characters and elements, and I think that both 'Heathers' and 'Truth About Cats and Dogs' are, in their own weird ways - they're different ends of the girl movie spectrum, but they're very much centered around the female characters, and I like those movies, and I like working with good actresses.

Michael Lehmann

Good Girl Truth Cats Think Weird

There's so many great coming-of-age movies to steal from, and I feel like I just tried to steal from them all equally.

Great Feel Movies I Feel Like Just

By any objective standard, Joaquin Guzman Loera is an evil man who has caused untold suffering for others.

Man Suffering Evil Others Who Any

I've spent about that amount of time trying to tell the public that there was purpose in... my business, my career and the roller coaster ride... how the people I associated with worked together.

Diahann Carroll

Business Time Ride Together Purpose

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.

Christy Mathewson

Woman Training Spring Looks Young

Christina Aguilera

I wouldn't say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.

Anneliese van der Pol

Work Born Say Hard Because Very

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