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" I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist, but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places. "
Paul Theroux
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Places
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" I like playing tennis. I've always enjoyed the process of being a tennis player; I'm just not sure that I enjoyed the travel at the end, and my body didn't recover from the day-to-day grind. "
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" I've never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours. I just don't meet those people. What I meet, over and over again, as I travel around, is that the essential human condition is optimistic - in every one of these places. "
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" I don't mind where I work, it's really nice to be able to travel around and taste the flavours of different countries. "
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" Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world. "
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" Immortality may be impossible, but imagine what humanity could learn if we all lived 700 years. We could travel deep into utopia and beyond. "
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" A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing. "
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" I want my handbags and my shoes to be stylish but I want to make sure that they're versatile. I travel and I have to make sure the pieces I put into my bag can go with a dress or with shorts or jeans. "
Maria Sharapova
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" I travel, I read, I write, I have other lives. But when I have a camera, I know that's my country, my island. "
Leos Carax
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" A place that doesn't welcome tourists, that's really difficult and off the map, is a place I want to see. "
Paul Theroux
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Want
" You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street. "
Lapo Elkann
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" Time travel is a wonderful thing, isn't it? "
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" My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted. "
K. D. Lang
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" How the hell can I ask people who work for me to travel cheaply if I travel in luxury? It's a question of good leadership. "
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" I was lucky enough to have it all. To be successful in business, to have children, to raise them on my own, and to travel and live my life. It was a lot of work, but it's a privilege to have been able to do it. "
Diane von Furstenberg
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" I never get enough sleep, even when I travel. I wake up in the middle of the night, either with the help of my kids or because my mind is going. I wish I got eight hours a night, but it is more like an interrupted six or seven. The secret is to go to sleep well before midnight. "
Summer Sanders
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" I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't. "
Robyn Davidson
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" I want my life to match my work now. I don't want to work and then travel. I want to be at one place. "
Sarita Choudhury
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Life
Work
" I particularly like to travel for work because you see a completely different side of the country you're visiting. "
Philip Treacy
Like
You
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" Travel like a pro, not like a hobo. That's my motto. "
Greg Gutfeld
Motto
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" My mom loved fashion. We loved to travel and go to Italy and Paris. "
Melania Trump
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" Time travel is such a magic concept. "
Matt Smith
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" Antigravity, teleportation, time travel, energetic DNA evolution and consciousness transformation could create a world few of us ever even dreamed of. "
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" I love to travel, but hate to arrive. "
Hernan Cortes
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" I find the whole time travel question very unsettling if you take it to its logical extension. I think it might eventually be possible, but then what happens? "
William Shatner
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" I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth. "
Paolo Bacigalupi
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" I travel a lot. I didn't want to be stuck sitting in my office managing the business. "
Mike Schultz
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Henry Rollins
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" Many small towns I know in Maine are as tight-knit and interdependent as those I associate with rural communities in India or China; with deep roots and old loyalties, skeptical of authority, they are proud and inflexibly territorial. "
Paul Theroux
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" You couldn't get me to go travel around and sit in a hotel room again. I have no interest in doing that. So everybody's happy. I am, at 74. Some people like doing it, but I never was much for that, anyway. It's a lot of work. So the only thing I miss about all of it is the camaraderie of the tour, but that doesn't offset the rest of it. "
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" I hate vacations. I hate them. I have no fun on them. I get nothing done. People sit and relax, but I don't want to relax. I want to see something. "
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