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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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" 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. "

" When I was young, I thought I wouldn't be a good mother. Now I think I would be, but I'm too long in the tooth. "

" In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's way to godliness. The Hindu sadhu, the pilgrims of Compostela walking past their sins, the circumambulators of the Buddhist kora, the haj. "

" You can trick yourself into doing things by doing it one step at a time and never letting yourself see the overall picture. "

" I think people are frightened by different things, so I don't see myself as particularly courageous. "

" Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Find out what you're capable of. "

" As you get older, you do just get tired. "

" Of course, in India, I always said, 'Oh yes, I'm married.' "

" I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War. "

" My sense of myself is that I was a rather unformed kind of person trying to make myself up out of bits of spit and string. "

" 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. "

" After thirty years of being 'the camel lady,' believe me: One becomes inured to the spotlight. "

" 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. "

" The romantic view would be that nomads are wonderful people, better than us; they care about the environment. "

" 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. "

" Never, never have a famous partner. It's too complicated. "

" The truth is I'm not really interested in travel writing as it's generally conceived, and even less so in female travel writing. "

" 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. "

" The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop. "

" 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. "

" London sort of wore me down. I can't cope with the winters! "

" The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city. "

" 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. "

" I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't. "

" Thank God for being a writer, because you do sort of find out what you think by the process of writing. "

" My own memories are packed tightly away. I very rarely bring them out for viewing. "

" I don't want to be bored; I don't want to be with someone I don't respect. "

" If you think of all the enduring stories in the world, they're of journeys. Whether it's 'Don Quixote' or 'Ulysses,' there's always this sense of a quest - of a person going away to be tested, and coming back. "

" That arrogance of youth and that kind of ignorant confidence can get you through a whole lot of things, and then life does its stuff, and you get smashed around and beaten up. You get full of doubts, and you end up making a person out of those bits and pieces. "