Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or in nonfiction. The Midwest is also a landscape that I have always been infatuated with, perhaps because it's the first one I can truly remember.
Dinaw Mengestu
CityAmericanRememberLandscape
On the landscape crew, I learned a lot from the other workers. We treated everybody equally, and we worked hard.
Jack Dangermond
LandscapeHardWorkersCrewLearned
The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.
Donna Tartt
FriendBookStoryLanguageLandscape
I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.
Karan Mahajan
PeopleRealityLandscapeStriving
The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism.
Chris Hughes
LandscapeLongJournalismCompetitive
I still don't know why, exactly, but I do think people can have a spiritual connection to landscape, and I certainly did in Iceland.
Hannah Kent
SpiritualPeopleThinkLandscapeWhy
The British have a unique relationship with horses. They are etched into our landscape in chalk, they have been written about, painted, sung about, celebrated and gambled upon for centuries.
Clare Balding
RelationshipLandscapeUniqueBritish
Once a landscape is industrialized, its wild character is lost for good. You can't recreate untouched tundra, mountain meadows, crystal clear streams, and animals that have never encountered toxic waste.
Frances Beinecke
GoodCharacterMountainLandscape
Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
Arthur Erickson
CityEngineeringProcessLandscape
I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
Damian Lewis
AgeLandscapeActorLeadJustTV
It would be ridiculous to ignore the speed and possibilities of the digital landscape - you absolutely need to have fast-moving news online, but if you want to build a large audience over time, you absolutely have to take a risk on the big challenging stuff.
Anna Wintour
TimeIgnorePossibilitiesLandscape
The North Korean landscape is strikingly beautiful in places. It could be said to resemble America's Pacific Northwest - but substantially drained of color.
Barbara Demick
BeautifulColorAmericaLandscape
You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.
Woodrow Wilson
LightExperienceDaySunLandscape
The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies - buying those houses and restoring them, and doing the three-generation thing, mouldering into the landscape, and the 'community,' identifying with the place in a familiar way.
Peter York
CommunityMoneyDoingLandscapeNew
The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place. Certainly finding a place that you like or discovering something unusual is a very sustaining thing in travel.
Paul Theroux
HomeTravelPeopleFindingLandscape
For thousands of years, the most physically imposing buildings on earth were temples, churches, and mosques. But in the 20th century, new houses of worship came to dominate the landscape. Yankee Stadium is the most storied of these contemporary shrines.
Thomas Hauser
LandscapeBuildingsEarthNewYears
But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.
Richard Serra
MyselfLandscapePossibleTryFormal
The less subsidy we have, the more the 'producers' take over, and the 'bottom line' becomes the raison d'etre. That's quite an unappealing landscape for artists.
Marianne Elliott
LandscapeMoreOverLineBottom
I read the papers, I surf the Web. At the beginning of the year, I try to see at least two episodes of every show on our network. Am I surfing? All the time. I'm aware of the landscape. I'm a competitor, so I have to know whom I'm competing with.
Leslie Moonves
TimeBeginningLandscapeYearKnow
One of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape, always be sure to put a human figure somewhere in the scene. Why? Because readers are human beings, mostly interested in human beings. People are humanists. Most of them are humanists, that is.
Kurt Vonnegut
BeginningPeopleLandscapeYouWhy
As soon as I knew we were going to be doing tribute episodes, and as soon as I knew the landscape of 'Psych' allowed us to do homages, the show creator and I both had respective dreams. His was a musical episode, and mine was a 'Twin Peaks' episode.
James Roday
DreamsDoingLandscapeCreatorGoing
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
Georges Simenon
NatureMountainsWorldLandscape
New discoveries and production of resources like shale oil and gas are dramatically altering our energy supply outlook and the entire global geopolitical landscape. And the pace of change - particularly in the past few years - continues to accelerate.
Fred Upton
ChangePastEnergyLandscapeNew
Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
David Hockney
LandscapeEnjoymentThrill
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