Jon Krakauer Quotes

When I was 23, I went to Alaska by myself into the glaciers of the coast range and climbed a mountain by myself. It was incredibly reckless, incredibly stupid. But I was lucky. And I survived, and I came back to tell my story.

Jon Krakauer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 12, 1954

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When you're a kid, you read about this glamorous acting world, but actually it's really unglamorous.

Jodie Whittaker

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If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about getting the outline of the forest.

Jeff Koons

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I always like spoken word records.

Ry Cooder

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When Yauch died, it was really like losing my older brother. I mean, I have biological older brothers, but growing up, Adam really was my older brother.

Mike D

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'Crouching Tiger,' of course, was a very dramatic role for me, and the fighting was very serious.

Michelle Yeoh

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I've no doubt about the attitude of the players. Everything moves quickly in football; we coaches move on quickly from victory and defeat.

Julen Lopetegui

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Basically, it comes down to this: do you believe in God, or don't you believe in God.

Christopher Koch

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I think of my parents as a single unit, and it's interesting because they shared so much, and they were totally opposite. My mother, a Martha Graham dancer, had a classical background; my father had a back-porch background.

Arlo Guthrie

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When hiring, trust your feelings.

Peter Diamandis

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Know what suits you. I would never wear brown, because it just doesn't work with my pale skin and dark hair. Also I wouldn't wear flats at night, because I love heels.

Leigh Lezark

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I find you can lose yourself in an acting sense in a fight far more easily than you can in a dialogue scene, and I love that about it. We try as actors all the time: we strive just to completely sort of lose ourselves in the moment, and we never quite get there, but in a fight, you can do it in seconds; that is what I love about it.

Kit Harington

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From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human activity is an island.

Julian Baggini

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