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Lewis Gordon Pugh Quotes

Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: environmentalist
Nationality: british
Birth: December 5, 1969

Topics

Change Challenge Problems Everest

I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.

Hate Guitar Corner Move Only Just

'Life's That Way' was an extraordinarily difficult book to write, because it wasn't written as a book. It was written as a journal of events that were happening as I wrote it, without the space or time either to digest or analyze those events and without the hindsight and peace that writing in the aftermath would have provided.

Life Time Peace Space Writing Book

When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.

Age Pain Anger Start Road You

I began by doing a lot of character work on TV, just fun acting parts.

Work Character Fun Doing Acting TV

The major reform legislation, Dodd-Frank, was named after two guys bought and sold by special interests, and one of them should be shouldering a good amount of blame for the crisis.

Good Blame Crisis Special Two Guys

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions.

Michael Cunningham

Language Find Down Go Way First

The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.

Culture Youth World Feel Things

I grew up in Middle America and I don't think my family was very funny, but I watched 'The Princess Bride.' I always wanted to be an actor. I didn't know anything about it. I'd never seen any plays or anything and I watched that movie over and over and over again.

Family Funny Think Bride America

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

Writing Process Envy Discovery Find

National parks are the best expression of social equity that there is. It's like paying our rent for living on the planet.

Douglas Tompkins

Best Living Rent Equity Planet Like

I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.

Best World Think Name Go First

I studied acting throughout high school, then modelling took over because it brought more opportunity. When I quit modelling, coming back to Vancouver, I registered at the University of Victoria.

Opportunity School High School Acting

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