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Robyn Davidson Quotes

The truth is I'm not really interested in travel writing as it's generally conceived, and even less so in female travel writing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: australian
Birth: September 6, 1950

Topics

Truth Travel Writing Truth Is Even

I can shoot off my big mouth and write my shows and run my shows, and I can recognize how lucky I am because my position is rare and my position is privileged.

I Am Mouth I Can Run Lucky Write

Well, I don't know if this is true of everyone, but I have this relationship with my parents where, despite however mature or articulate or grown-up I think I've become, as soon as I go home, I turn into this petulant 13-year-old, especially with the tone of my voice.

Home Relationship Parents Think Know

I think there is empirical evidence that if you look at family controlled businesses, they actually outperform in terms of results and also valuations, the broader market.

Family Think You Look Results

I've kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay employed, I had to figure out how to play bad guys.

Bad Career Play Kind Out Playing

I design a lot of things that I wear onstage, but I'm always looking for unique stuff. I like creative things, so anything I can find at a secondhand costume shop to a Helmut Lang store, it doesn't matter - just unique stuff.

Creative Looking Design Unique Find

I'm free-spirited, and it gets me into trouble.

Me Trouble Gets

Comedy unites, it doesn't divide!

Comedy Divide Unites

I absorbed the vinyl of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Jack Elliott, to Michael McClure and then into the Beat poets, Allen Ginsberg. At campus, we were absorbing that stuff. We looked to America.

America Vinyl Beat Stuff Campus

Say 'Toronto' or 'Ontario,' and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.

Christopher Hitchens

Queen Thought America Say Street

The thing about a sense of humour is that it's not bestowed on the good. It's just randomly dished out.

Good Humour Out Sense Just Bestowed

In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.

Art People Painting America Hobby

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'

Help Others People Me Opportunities

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