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" 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. "

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" You really can expand the boundaries of your life and do risky things and prove yourself by doing them. "

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

" I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career. "

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

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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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" 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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" As we've lost this idea of pilgrimage, we've lost this idea of human beings walking for a very, very long time. It does change you. "

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

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

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" Some of the best conversations I've had are sitting around a camp fire. "

" I am very lucky: not very many writers can say they genuinely like the film of their book. However, I do. "

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" 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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" 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. "

" 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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