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Susan Orlean Quotes

Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 31, 1955

Topics

Nature Seasons Be True Earth Living

I love doing my own stunts. I'd love to do a full-on period sword-fighting piece where I get to show off with fighting and horses - I'm up for it.

Aneurin Barnard

Love Fighting Doing My Own Show Off

It's best not to stare at the sun during an eclipse.

Best Sun Eclipse Stare

I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.

Positive Journey Stepping Without

The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Life Impact Retirement Career New

My collaborations with V. Radhakrishram and B. G. Clark were especially fruitful.

Robert Woodrow Wilson

Fruitful Were Clark Collaborations

Often, when people don't do so well in a monologue at UCB, it's because they're racking their brain so hard to be funny that they're just not honest and don't just tell a true story, which is what we want.

Funny People Brain Story Want True

You tell me you want to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat you. My grandmother asks me to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat her. And I'll probably enjoy it. Competitive to a fault, sometimes.

Me Enjoy You Down Sometimes Street

Final Destination was the closest thing I've done to a teen movie but it certainly had an edge to it.

Teen Destination Edge Done Final

The changing of the goals helps keep the motivation fresh.

Bradley Wiggins

Goals Motivation Fresh Keep Changing

People become writers in the first place by those things that hurt you into art, as Yeats said it. Then they become separated from what started out affecting them. Journalism forces you to look at the world so you don't get cut off.

Art People World Hurt You Look

I certainly don't recognise myself as the horrible sexist portrayed in media reports, and I don't think the women who have worked with me throughout my career do either.

Women Myself Me Think Media Career

Wine gets better with time. So does art.

Time Art Wine Better Does Gets

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