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John Burroughs Quotes

Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Born Observation Years Only Made

If you're writing, it means getting up and writing all day, and if you're filming, it's getting up and filming all day. I get up, go to my computer, write, turn it off, and go to bed. That is a Clarkson day.

Jeremy Clarkson

Day Writing You Bed Go Write

I write everything in Courier 12 because I write for publication, not pleasure.

Write Pleasure Everything Because

I know Peter Jackson a tiny-tiny bit from interviewing him about the 'Lord of the Rings' movies over the years. When I was visiting the set of 'The Return of the King,' he let me be an extra so I could see filmmaking from a different perspective. I was a Rohan soldier.

Perspective King Me Filmmaking Know

The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape.

Me Reading Chosen Gods Entertain

My hopes and aspirations haven't changed since I started in this business. They've been to be able to play drama, to be able to play comedy, to be able to play leading men, and to be able to play character roles. I have no other aspirations in this regard.

Business Character Men Comedy Play

I didn't want my opponent to know there was anything wrong with me.

Me Wrong Know Want Anything

I got love for Damon Dash as I did before. I don't know if we can be around each other in that way because times have changed. He may be a totally different person. I know I'm a different person. But nothing can erase that era, those times, those memories, those fights to get 'Roc-A-fella' where it was.

Love Memories Person Know Nothing

People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

People Mind Ideas Interesting New

If somebody gave you several thousand dollars and nothin' to do but write, would you be a writer then? Would you tell your stories, your family's stories, then?

Dorothy Allison

Family You Write Tell Would Your

Of course 'we humans' have a funny relationship with the beings with whom we share our planet. We eat them, we care for them, we admire them, we use them.

Funny Relationship Care Admire Eat

My mom is a gym teacher, and she's not musically inclined, but she always wanted to help me out with music as best she could.

Annaleigh Ashford

Music Teacher Best Me Mom Help

For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.

Time Horizon Minds Hard Reason See

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