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Carl Safina Quotes

As a teenage fisherman, I watched and followed terns to find fish. Later, I studied terns for my Ph.D.

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Birth: 1955

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Fish Find Later Watched Teenage

I sort of came from a big family - eight kids - and I guess I always, more than most people, really revel in privacy and solitude sometimes.

Family People Solitude Privacy More

I'm from Oklahoma, and Nick's from a small town in Illinois.

Small Small Town Oklahoma Town Nick

What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them if they had any heart wounds from something I may have said.

Heart Myself Said Others Need May

I've fallen in love with shows like 'Homeland' and 'The Wire.' And I think 'The Office' is in a category like that.

Love Think Office Like Homeland

It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.

Jeanette Winterson

Woman Husband Artist Helpful

Friends have a big influence over how you feel, think, and behave.

Influence Think Feel Friends You

In order to describe a particular subculture, you might want to portray people who are typical or representative of that subculture; but to dramatize it, to make it an interesting setting for a story, you want to bring someone anomalous into that setting, to see how she conforms to it, and it to her.

People Story Interesting Someone You

You beat him verbally. You beat him mentally, and then finally, you beat him physically. That's the three ways to beat a man.

Man You Three Him Beat Finally

Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.

Music Science Brother Ideas Sister

My mother at the age of 65 decided she was going to run for mayor. She had never run for public office, and she decided she wanted to try and do some things for the community.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Mother Age Community Run Try Office

I watch every reality show out there.

Shannon Elizabeth

Reality Out Watch Show Every

When you're filming, not everything is rational.

Sebastian Lelio

You Everything Rational Filming

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