Richard Preston Quotes

I was surfing the Internet, and I came across a school in Atlanta where you could learn how to climb trees with ropes the way the pros do. It sounded terrific, and so I went down there, and I began to learn these kind of rarified techniques for how you get up and down trees while using special ropes and gear.

Richard Preston

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SchoolClimbTreesInternetLearn

We have for too long put vast oil and natural gas reserves off limits to exploration and production, as The Washington Post editorial stated this week.

Jim Costa

LimitsWeekLongExplorationOil

Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events.

Matthew Ashford

MeIdeasEverydayEventsAlwaysGet

Ethan Allen was convinced that every planet out there has its own intelligent extraterrestrials. And this, as you can imagine, is a radical, inspiring, but very unsettling, idea.

Matthew Stewart

YouIntelligentOutOwnPlanetIdea

I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.

Ani DiFranco

WorkWomenHateExperienceMenMore

I think America would do anything through a drive-through.

Stephen Graham Jones

ThinkAmericaThroughAnythingWould

The first act is the easiest to plot. The second act is always the hardest to plot. Generally a good, you know, sometimes the third act can be difficult because you can get into a rut in the third act - everybody runs to their Corvette, has a chase, and you catch the bad guy.

Stephen J. Cannell

GoodYouBadKnowSometimesFirst

What I want is to be number one.

Steve Prefontaine

WantNumber

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

Jonah Hill

LifeFailureRosesEverythingUp

I missed my entrance in a production of 'Blade to the Heat' at Thick Description in San Francisco. I came into the scene very late and hugged the punching bag. I had no idea what to do! Unfortunately, that mishap was recorded for archives at UC Berkeley. It goes down in history.

Colman Domingo

HistoryBagLateDownMissedHeat

I was actually really good at telemarketing.

Boots Riley

GoodActuallyReally

Facebook already has a large political ad sales and operations team that manages ad accounts for large campaigns. Zuckerberg hinted that the company could follow the same 'know your customer' guidelines Wall Street banks routinely employ to combat money laundering, logging each and every candidate and super PAC that advertises on Facebook.

Antonio Garcia Martinez

MoneyTeamPoliticalCustomerWall

I'd rather sleep on the bus than in the hotel because I sleep way better on tour buses.

Shawn Mendes

SleepBetterHotelWayBusBecause

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