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Hope Jahren Quotes

When I was 23, my Norwegian relatives taught me how to sit still. During the long sunlit evenings in the summer of 1992, my cousins would lead me across the farm to the edge of the forest, each of us lugging a folding chair. There, in a scraggly bramble of wild blueberries, we would set them down a few yards apart, each in our own little patch.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 27, 1969

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Me Forest Farm Chair Long Down

It's not how many tickets can we sell, it's where do we want to play, not where should we play to make the most money. We don't really care about that.

Money Care Play Want Where Sell

Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.

Good Blind Inappropriate How Readers

To make films is as boring as watching paint dry - you usually have to do little tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back - the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going.

Hope Waiting Energy Someone You Go

My sister called her pillow a pilgo. My brother called his pacifier his nimma. But I don't think I was much of a word generator myself.

Andrew Clements

Myself Brother Sister Think Pillow

I had the '80s hair and braces and a 6-3 frame as a 16-year-old.

Hair Frame Braces Had

The idea of making pictures abroad is exciting when you're in Hollywood and have never worked in foreign countries. You think you'll get to see the sights and have all the fun that goes with traveling. Actually, you spend so much time on the job that you don't do much else.

Time Job Fun Think You Pictures

It's just exciting to be able to see what someone around the world is eating in Sicily or Tokyo.

World Eating Someone See Tokyo Just

Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.

Live Animal Grow Problem Land Rice

To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and just focusing on training.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Best Training Bag Speed You Need

In the past, biology has been a backwater type of activity - a bunch of nerds in a lab. Now the sheer potential of biology to re-program our physical world is a new reality for everyone.

Ryan Bethencourt

Past World Potential Reality Biology

I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.

Music Parents Me Guitar Acting Five

But that was my very first time on a set and they said, you know, you have to stand on a mark. That little piece of tape that you stand on is called a mark. I kept correcting them and telling them that my name was Michael and not Mark. They said, 'No, no honey.' I was a little green.

Michael Weatherly

Time Green Name Stand You Honey

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