Ian Frazier Quotes

You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.

Ian Frazier

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I feel fortunate I have this amazing relationship with so many people in America, because I was in their homes at a very private time of day. They probably might have still had their robe on and their slippers and haven't made the beds.

Joan Lunden

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Eventually, I'd love to be known as a character actor.

Jess Weixler

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I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.

Jeremy Renner

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I actually admire some of the books by a lot of the writers who write magic realism very much, but it's not for me. It's not what I can do, but even if I could, I don't really want to try.

Melvyn Bragg

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There are a lot of ways to make people not like you, but one of the most powerful - if least fair - is to be really, really successful. Nobody resents the guy who just lost his job. But the guy whose Internet start-up made him a billionaire at 25? That's a whole different kettle of envy.

Jeffrey Kluger

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Everybody has 24 hours and the question is, what do you do with your 24 hours? That's what makes everybody equal.

Stedman Graham

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As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.

Sue Monk Kidd

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It's through a leader's actions - what he or she does and says on a daily basis - that the essence of great leadership becomes apparent.

Travis Bradberry

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I don't think that my art isn't serious. I think the subjects are not serious, or my treatments of the subjects are not serious. But then, I'm also putting down subject, because like the abstract expressionists, I don't think the subject is important.

Roy Lichtenstein

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I think that being a Wildling is essentially about surviving the cold, and in that department, the extras on our shoot excelled and needed no help from us.

Miguel Sapochnik

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I write about what happens in my life - and my dad's passing was a huge blow to me.

Lukas Forchhammer

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I've deliberately studied many things that I know, going in, I won't be able to assimilate. I read Plato, St. Thomas, the mystics, to exercise my mind.

Don Ameche

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