Laird Hamilton Quotes
All training does is get us back what we lost when we stopped having to hunt down our food. Our bodies are built for it already.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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I'm still very much Kate.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I'm not a - I'm beautiful, but I'm not working because I'm drop-dead gorgeous with a fantastic body. I think I continue to work because I'm good at my craft. I'm dedicated to bringing to life what the author is trying to portray. I try to make the producers cry and the crew laugh.
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It's those damn critics again.
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In fiction, a reaction shot is a brief portrayal of how your character reacts to something that someone else has done. In contrast to more direct character building, your guy doesn't initiate the sequence; he completes it. Exactly how he completes it can tell readers a lot about him.
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I play music for people all over the world. It's a huge privilege.
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Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
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All training does is get us back what we lost when we stopped having to hunt down our food. Our bodies are built for it already.
