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Robyn Davidson Quotes

Australian - Writer | September 6, 1950 -

When 'Tracks' first came out, I was courted by Sydney Pollack. I had lunch with him, and he opened the conversation with, 'Honey, you ain't gonna like what I'm gonna do to your book.' I really liked him, but I turned him down, because - well, I was stupid. I also turned down a great deal of money.

Great Money Lunch Stupid Book You

Some of the best conversations I've had are sitting around a camp fire.

Best Fire Sitting Conversations Some

If you are fragmented and uncertain, it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt.

Yourself You Find Boundaries Melt

Australia's arid western region, from the town of Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean coast, is a beautiful, haunting, but largely empty land. Dominated by the harsh, almost uninhabited Great Sandy and Gibson deserts, the region is known only to Australian Aborigines, a handful of white settlers, and the few travelers who motor across it.

Beautiful Great Ocean White Land

Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Find out what you're capable of.

Yourself Think You Find Capable Out

The agricultural revolution transformed the earth and changed the fate of humanity. It produced an entirely new mode of subsistence, which remains the foundation of the global economy to this day.

Day Foundation Revolution Fate Earth

Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude is part of a writer's sensibility.

Time Solitude Choice My Own Own

I try to factor solitude into my life because more and more, that's becoming a very precious and rare commodity.

Life Solitude My Life Try More Rare

As we've lost this idea of pilgrimage, we've lost this idea of human beings walking for a very, very long time. It does change you.

Change Time Walking Long You Lost

In 10000 BC, all human beings were hunter-gatherers; by 1500 AD, 1 percent were hunter-gatherers. Less than .001 percent of people are hunter-gatherers today.

Today People Human Percent 1 Percent

Some instinct - and I think it was a correct one - led me to do something difficult enough to give my life meaning.

Life Me Think My Life Enough Give

I don't want to be bored; I don't want to be with someone I don't respect.

Respect Someone Want Bored

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