I've been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only hve three close friends. I guess that's all anyone can expect.
Hedy LamarrRead
I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.
Interpretation
Travel can introduce you to fascinating individuals who share similar interests.
In this quote, Hedy Lamarr reflects on her experiences while traveling, noting that she has encountered intriguing individuals during flights and boat journeys. This observation implies that certain modes of travel tend to attract like-minded people, fostering connections that align with one's own interests and personality.
In practice
During a group discussion about travel experiences, I shared a quote from Hedy Lamarr regarding the interesting people met while traveling.
I've been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only hve three close friends. I guess that's all anyone can expect.
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.
I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.
I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more.
The world isn't getting any easier. With all these new inventions I believe that people are hurried more and pushed more... The hurried way is not the right way; you need time for everything - time to work, time to play, time to rest.
I waited for my daughter, Billie, to come to me with her troubles - but I'm glad I didn't hold my breath.
Generally speaking, we as black people have been celebrated more for when we are subservient when we are not being leaders or kings or in the center of our own narrative driving it forward.
At least 260 species of animal have been noted exhibiting homosexual behavior but only one species of animal ever, so far as we know, has exhibited homophobic behavior - and that's the human being.
I've always had as many powerful, creative ladies in my life as I have men, and you could probably describe some of those relationships as romantic. I think everyone's bisexual to some degree or another; it's just a question of whether or not you choose to recognise it and embrace it. Personally, I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavours.
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
It's important to tell queer stories and to show queer relationships in a very normal setting.
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