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John Burroughs Quotes

My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: April 3, 1837 - March 29, 1921

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Motto Voice Try Never Always Inward

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

Brain You Engage Weapon Your Before

Working with Mel Gibson is a little like waltzing with a hurricane. It's always exciting, and you're never quite sure where it's going to take you.

You Never Always Little Take Going

'Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.' Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn't have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That's not a tax raise. That's called fairness where I come from.

Money Fairness Tax Burden Want Bear

I was really inspired while I was pregnant and I wrote a whole album for my baby. I wanted to write a kids album that didn't annoy parents. I used The Beatles 'Rocky Raccoon' as sort of a starting place for my writing.

Parents Baby Writing Place Write

I was taught Shakespeare brilliantly by an eccentric genius at Harrow named Jeremy Lemmon who made me want to be a writer.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Me Genius Want Who Writer Made

Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest.

Robert Downey, Jr.

You Sometimes Nest Out Just Gotta

If your body needs certain food, you have to give it to it. And as an athlete, if I'm doing 100 miles a week and working out, if I eat bad food one day, it's not bad for me because I burn it off.

Food Day Me Doing You Body

For me to get through the toughest periods in my life, I had to look within to find the energy to do it. I don't give up. Never have. Never will.

Life Me Energy My Life Look Find

Trips to the dentist - I like to postpone that kind of thing.

Kind Dentist Like Trips Postpone

There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom.

Freedom Mind Free Speak Enough

I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.

Work Opportunity Travel Chance

I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer.

Art Moment School Poetry Writing

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