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" You really can expand the boundaries of your life and do risky things and prove yourself by doing them. "
Robyn Davidson
You
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" Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude is part of a writer's sensibility. "
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" My thoughts can sometimes be spurred by what I read, but my reading is extremely eclectic. "
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" 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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" The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop. "
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" Camels are wonderful animals. Witty, intelligent and sensitive. "
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" Camels are still trained in Alice Springs for tourist jaunts and for occasional sale to Australia's zoos. "
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" I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film. "
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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. "
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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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" 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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" I've chosen difficult men. But then I'm sure they'd say they'd chosen a difficult woman. "
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" Some of the best conversations I've had are sitting around a camp fire. "
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Best
" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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End
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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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" As you get older, you do just get tired. "
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" These days I am ruled by doubt, and that is a difficult place to write from. "
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Place
Doubt
" 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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" People who wander are nicer to be with. Movement militates against hoarding possessions and against bigotry, because you are constantly moving across boundaries and having to negotiate with people. "
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" I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space. "
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" 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
" Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Find out what you're capable of. "
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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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" I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War. "
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" Of course, in India, I always said, 'Oh yes, I'm married.' "
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" I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't. "
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" 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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" 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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" You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm. "
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