To experience the northern forest in the raw, I went to northern Finland and Lapland, travelling on horseback, and sleeping on reindeer skins in the traditional open-fronted Finnish laavu. I ate elk heart, reindeer and lingonberries, and tried out spruce resin: the chewing gum of the Stone Age.
Michelle Paver
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My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of what was so terrifying up there that the Romans built a 60-mile long, 30-ft-high stone wall to keep it out.
Neil Marshall
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I have quite an eclectic taste in music. I like Angus & Julia Stone; they are an Australian brother/sister duo. I like Adele. She is phenomenal.
Luke Mitchell
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
Lucretius
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I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway.
Kathleen Turner
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I didn't get into comics as a stepping stone.
Jason Aaron
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Grace Kelly, Rita Hayworth and Sofia Lauren are my style inspirations. In terms of modern day actresses who I find inspiring, I love Emma Stone, Rooney Mara, Kirsten Dunst and Evan Rachel Wood. They aren't afraid to take risks and make edgy.
Carly Steel
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I'm directing and writing the 'Big Stone Gap' movie.
Adriana Trigiani
WritingStoneBigGapDirecting
As CEO of Cold Stone Creamery, we used a concept called 'search and reapply,' which meant that if we found better ways of doing something, then we would do it.
Doug Ducey
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I pride myself on leaving no stone unturned as far as being the most prepared that I can be.
Benjamin Watson
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Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life.
Chauncey Wright
LifeNatureHabitStoneNeverMove
The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
Victor Hugo
PeopleKingsStoneLastResort
Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.
Claire Danes
StrategyStoneAliveMakeAlert
The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.
Tammin Sursok
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A guy that I was supposed to face - and I think that he was just plain downright scared to get in the ring with me because he was one of those guys that was on top and saw a huge threat in Brock Lesnar at the time - that's 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin.
Brock Lesnar
TimeMeColdFaceThinkStone
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My dream kitchen would have a massive island with some beautiful slab of stone, a huge fridge, possibly even a walk-in - I just want it to be a plethora of fruits and veggies. I would have a nice bar area, too.
Antoni Porowski
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No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.
Olivier Messiaen
MusicStonePlayWoodMustText
If Beethoven could write his 'Eroica Symphony' stone deaf, then William Wyler can do a musical.
William Wyler
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Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.
Maeve Binchy
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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
Pope Paul VI
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Two young actresses I admire are Emma Stone and Emma Watson, because they are intelligent, talented actresses and have a great sense of humor. They have learned to balance what they love in life - acting, school and everything else.
Kara Hayward
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I suppose, in a way, one could say I may be less interested in my career than the audience is. Not to mean that I'm disinterested in my career, but I don't see it in terms of one stepping stone or, 'Now I'm going to go into my blue phase,' or what have you.
Peter Hammill
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I see The Stone Roses in '89 as Technicolor: we were all about joy and possibilities of life.
Ian Brown
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