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Robyn Davidson Quotes

I think people are frightened by different things, so I don't see myself as particularly courageous.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Myself People Think See Things

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Reward Person Become Get Highest

When I came back to the UFC, I was just excited.

Back Excited Just I Came UFC Came

After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.

Rudolph A. Marcus

Problem Attention Student Class Some

This business is about working. It's really not about glamour. For me, the most glamorous thing about it is to b able to get on stage and perform my music for people. That's the privilege. And that's what all the work leads up to, and that's why it's worth it to me.

Work Business Music People Me Worth

My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up.

Parents Growing Up Growing Up Daddy

I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.

Me Never Stretch Going Further Than

The British film industry has always tried to sell itself as something rather sophisticated. It's almost as if it thinks it is by royal command. It has always tried to claim the high ground, not only over Hollywood but over the whole of humanity!

Humanity Hollywood Royal Over High

I think 'Believer' and 'Leland' were such great things to have been a part of, and I learned a lot.

Great Think Great Things Things Been

Italian wines are my favorites. I like a big, booming red wine that blows your taste buds away.

Red Wine Taste Big Away Your

Being brave is what led to three rejections from Yale Law School before being accepted. It led to losing my 2010 race for U.S. Congress, and another failed bid for public office in 2013, this time for public advocate of New York City.

Time School New York Losing City

Cheap fish has usually been caught in careless ways.

Fish Cheap Careless Caught Been

Airports drive me mad. I don't mind the flying; it's all the hassle before you get on the plane and afterwards, including walking five miles through corridors to the point where you queue for ages to check passports and hope your luggage has arrived safely.

Hope Mind Me Drive Flying Walking

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