I have, I must admit, despised the English countryside for much of my life - despised it and avoided it for its want of danger and adventure.
Jim Crace
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Most of the fiction on the California Gold Rush makes it sound like one grand, boyish adventure. However, when you read the real history, you realize that it wasn't that way at all.
Laurence Yep
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Not having a car gives me volumes not to think or worry about, and makes walks around the neighborhood a daily adventure.
Pico Iyer
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I don't try to write songs that will further my career. I write about things that I care about. I don't have a career as much as I'm having an adventure with a guitar. I never liked the business way of doing it. You have to follow some sort of instinct.
Jerry Jeff Walker
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Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result.
Jacqueline Bisset
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There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.
Peter Straub
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Sure, give me an adventure and I'll ride it.
Melissa Auf der Maur
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
George Eliot
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Filmmaking is a great adventure. I'm as excited as a kid to be given tickets to fly suddenly to England, South Africa, America, everywhere. I'm still a 13-year-old kid, flying.
Shekhar Kapur
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
Andre Gide
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Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
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Every day is an adventure, and no two days are ever alike.
Scott Borchetta
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I was never a good student. I had to be dragged into kindergarten. It was hard to sit and listen to somebody talk. I wanted to be out, educated by experience and adventure, and I didn't know how to express that.
Robert Redford
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I like all the adventure sports but I like to do them in a safe way.
Catherine Bell
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The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong.
Tim Cahill
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Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.
Angelina Jolie
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For me, the blank page to draw on is a window to adventure.
Eduardo Risso
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In Ronald Reagan's chaotic childhood, the imagination was armor. There is nothing unusual about that; transcending the doubts, hesitations, and fears swirling around you by casting yourself internally as the hero of your own adventure story is a characteristic psychic defense mechanism of the Boy Who Disappears.
Rick Perlstein
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To go into therapy is an adventure, not really to iron anything out.
Jeff Bridges
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I love the leisurely amplitude, the spaciousness, of taking a walk, of heading somewhere, anywhere, on foot. I love the sheer adventure of it: setting out and taking off.
Edward Hirsch
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We love because it's the only true adventure.
Nikki Giovanni
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It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.
John Phillips
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The best part of my job is being able to travel to places to investigate powerful stories, many of which contains unsolved mysteries and deaths. To me as a documentarian and paranormal investigator, this puts the adventure in my life and meaning to my job.
Zak Bagans
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Although the Academy prefers their Best Pictures grounded in realism, not fantasy, Lee's 'Life of Pi' win proved that the voters understand and appreciate the qualities a visionary director needs to create an otherworldly adventure.
Richard Corliss
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