Ben Saunders Quotes

Environmental scientists in Canada said it was impossible for me to get to the Pole in 2004... I said 'no,' it's still OK, and I can still get there, and I did.

Ben Saunders

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MeEnvironmentalImpossibleCanada

I love the low-rider cars and that whole culture.

Jeremy Scott

LoveCultureWholeI Love

When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.

Meghan O'Rourke

MotherMyselfSickThinkRemember

I've been a fan of Jack Vance since before I was in high school.

Ann Leckie

SchoolHigh SchoolHighBeenFan

I think even back as far as 'Lord of the Rings,' there was always the chance that 'The Hobbit' would be made, even way back then. Of course at that point, Peter Jackson didn't probably think at that point that he'd be directing it.

Andy Serkis

ChanceThinkBackWayAlwaysPoint

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

Tommy Lee Jones

GoodIdeasShyOthersDirectorAway

I know I haven't said a lot of things I'm quoted as saying in the papers. It makes me wonder why I brought up the recovery story in the first place.

Mary Docter

MeSayingStoryWonderPlaceKnow

I want to record the name of Chen Guangbiao in Chinese history.

Chen Guangbiao

HistoryNameWantChineseRecord

I was basically a surfer girl from California. I never looked like a model.

Christie Brinkley

GirlNeverCaliforniaLikeModel

There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play.

Brian Moore

PeopleSomeoneFindingPlayPoint

It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years.

Ali MacGraw

DoingWantYearsMuchHow

I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?

Pierre Loti

GodDeterminationMyselfMeFast

I didn't want to write a 'this is how it is' Iraq book, because the Iraq War is an intensely complicated variety of things.

Phil Klay

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