Anatoli Boukreev Quotes
There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber.
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And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.
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You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into play.
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Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.
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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
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Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.
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Sometimes living in a room that's badly designed isn't the worst thing in the world. Trust me - this is a fact! Living in a room that has no design whatsoever is even worse. I've learned this from my many clients over the years that have moved into new houses and just can't figure out where to begin.
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We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred territory. I would not have ventured into it by myself.
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At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is.
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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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All our symbols have the same purpose; words are merely the symbols we use most commonly. The function of words in human thought is to stand for things which are not present to the senses, and allow the mind to manipulate them-things, concepts, ideas, everything that does not have a physical reality in front of us now.
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'Let him talk as he will!' scoffed Zamp. 'His motives are not at all obscure.'
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The only satisfied rationalists today are blinkered scientists or Marxists.
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We should aim for peaceful coexistence at least and transcultural synergy at best.
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Life might hurt, might bruise, might forever scar, but it was for living.
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If I'd been born ugly, you'd never have heard of Pele.
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It's all been guerrilla warfare trying to get my name out there.
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It feels right. But it's emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you've done that long is hard.
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There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber.
