Conrad Anker Quotes
If people want to go do some big outdoor thing for their ego, have them climb snowy mountains rather than shoot animals.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
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I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
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I am aware that I look good for my age. It's my genes. My dad looked incredibly young, so did my mother. And a younger husband helps. Scott is only 45. If he hadn't come along, I don't know what I'd have done.
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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Now keep in mind that I'm an artist and I'm sensitive about my sh*t
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Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
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I'm the company philosopher and the burr in the saddle. I'm the one who says we need to try harder, improve the quality of our products, become a part of the political process, help elect people who are good for the environment.
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I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.
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I used to see a lot of cocaine. There were journalists who used cocaine and didn't write about it and I didn't write about it. I would never do drugs, so I would always get the same response from people: "Smart kid, more for me." Whether it was a joke or sincere or both, but I was just happy not to be in there partying with the band like some of these other journalists.
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If people want to go do some big outdoor thing for their ego, have them climb snowy mountains rather than shoot animals.
