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" I think people are frightened by different things, so I don't see myself as particularly courageous. "
Robyn Davidson
People
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Think
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" By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves. "
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" I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War. "
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" In 10000 BC, all human beings were hunter-gatherers; by 1500 AD, 1 percent were hunter-gatherers. Less than .001 percent of people are hunter-gatherers today. "
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" Australia's arid western region, from the town of Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean coast, is a beautiful, haunting, but largely empty land. Dominated by the harsh, almost uninhabited Great Sandy and Gibson deserts, the region is known only to Australian Aborigines, a handful of white settlers, and the few travelers who motor across it. "
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" I try to factor solitude into my life because more and more, that's becoming a very precious and rare commodity. "
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" It is always interesting being on films sets - I have done it before with other actor friends - and I just find it fascinating. I just love that collaborative film family that develops around a project. "
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" I'm not one of those true writers who can't bear not to be writing. Yet it's one of the most important things in my life. "
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" When 'Tracks' first came out, I was courted by Sydney Pollack. I had lunch with him, and he opened the conversation with, 'Honey, you ain't gonna like what I'm gonna do to your book.' I really liked him, but I turned him down, because - well, I was stupid. I also turned down a great deal of money. "
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Honey
Lunch
Money
" I don't want to be bored; I don't want to be with someone I don't respect. "
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Bored
" I do not mean to say that we should, or could, return to traditional nomadic economies. I do mean to say that there are systems of knowledge and grand poetical schemata derived from the mobile life that it would be foolish to disregard or underrate. And mad to destroy. "
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Mad
" You have to remember that I was an Australian girl of the Fifties and Sixties. For Australians at that time, it was imperative to get out of the country and discover the world. "
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You
World
" My thoughts can sometimes be spurred by what I read, but my reading is extremely eclectic. "
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Sometimes
Reading
" Thank God for being a writer, because you do sort of find out what you think by the process of writing. "
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God
Think
Thank God
" Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there - you just can't do it anymore. "
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You
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" The French word for wanderlust or wandering is 'errance.' The etymology is the same as 'error.' So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea of learning through trial and error, allowing the mistakes to be part of the process. "
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" The romantic view would be that nomads are wonderful people, better than us; they care about the environment. "
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Us
Care
Environment
" You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm. "
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Book
You
Own
" You can trick yourself into doing things by doing it one step at a time and never letting yourself see the overall picture. "
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You
Yourself
" The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel. "
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Travel
Rich
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" After thirty years of being 'the camel lady,' believe me: One becomes inured to the spotlight. "
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Camel
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" I've chosen difficult men. But then I'm sure they'd say they'd chosen a difficult woman. "
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" I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film. "
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" That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world. "
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" At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. "
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" The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision. "
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You
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" My own memories are packed tightly away. I very rarely bring them out for viewing. "
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" Some of the best conversations I've had are sitting around a camp fire. "
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" Camels are wonderful animals. Witty, intelligent and sensitive. "
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" If you are fragmented and uncertain, it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt. "
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You
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" Of course, in India, I always said, 'Oh yes, I'm married.' "
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India
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