Annie Proulx Quotes
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I would love to go help baby sea turtles back into the ocean after hatching in Mexico.
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I boxed 15 years in a club.
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The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.
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When I was little I had this notion of being a marine biologist. I grew up by the ocean so I was always in the water but realistically, I don't think I would make the best marine biologist.
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I was at our beautiful home in Martha's Vineyard, near Boston, sitting on the porch looking at the ocean when I got a phone called and was asked, 'Would I like to do 'CSI'?' A week later, I'm at a coroner's office in Las Vegas, participating in a quadruple autopsy.
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
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I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.
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Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what's going on down there.
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One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.
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Giant squid aren't rare. Based on the number of beaks that have been found in the stomachs of sperm whales, it's thought that there are actually millions of them in the ocean, and yet, we haven't seen them.
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I done made music with Makonnen, Frank Ocean. We all make great music.
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There is no substitute for a real location when you're trying to shoot the jungle. You can't just go anywhere. You've got to go where it's lush and green and there really is those mountain ranges, the trees and the ocean.
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The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.
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Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.
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I love black truffles. I love white truffles.
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With epidemics, people have been standing on the shore, waiting for the gusher to hit the ocean. But to prevent epidemics, you have to look at the various little sources that feed into the river.
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The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
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The music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds. Thousands pass it, while others trample it under foot, and thus the chances are that it will perish before it is seen by the one discriminating spirit who will prize it above all else. The fact that no one has as yet arisen to make the most of it does not prove that nothing is there.
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It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.
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You're only as old as you feel, and I feel pretty young. I've got one gear, and till it gets reversed, I'm going all out.
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He who is full of joy is full of love.
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The ocean twitched like a vast cloth spread over snakes.
