I now talk to different cultures, and I hope that I can bridge those gaps and differences between us. It's an adventure, a dream... I feel like I'm on an anthropological mission.
My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.
I love being a part of storytelling, so whether I'm getting to do that on Survivor, or do it through kids' adventure books, or directing a movie, it's all sort of the same: Once Upon a Time...
As was the case in 'Darth Plagueis' - even going back as far as 'Cloak of Deception' - I was well aware that I was writing what used to be called 'men's adventure' fiction.
For me, the kitchen is the most special room in the house. It's a place for adventure - not drudgery, but discovery, sharing and showing off with friends, trying new ideas.
Adventure is the champagne of life, but I prefer my champagne and my adventures dry.
When you are pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen, brush the honey off your nose and spruce yourself up as best you can, so as to look Ready for Anything.
I chose China because I needed something new. Other clubs in Europe and Qatar were also a possibility, but the adventure at Guangzhou was the most interesting.
I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living.
Rather than focus on the negative aspects of change, which is loss, I focus on the adventure of it and say "What's next?"
My choice of a life of adventure may well have been a result of the fact that action raised my blood pressure giving me enough energy to live.
I'm looking forward to the new adventure. Playing in the Premier League was always my dream, and I'm definitely going to relish this opportunity and give my absolute everything for this club.
When I won the Oscar, I made a point of actively going against that and doing adventure films like 'Con Air' and 'Gone in 60 Seconds,' not what would be expected.
Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts.
The Bible isn't a choose your own adventure book where everyone can just make up their own meaning.
I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.
The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours ... but is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day.
When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of knowledge.
I have, I must admit, despised the English countryside for much of my life - despised it and avoided it for its want of danger and adventure.
Theories have been outgrown. The means is disappearing, the reality of the sensation alone remains. It is that in its essence which I wish to put down. It should be a delightful adventure.
The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it, is to close a dull door on nature's sustaining and poetic spirit.
Acting in movies? Why not. It would be a new adventure for me. This is always something I've liked to do, act in movies.
We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.
There's no such thing as adventure. There's no such thing as romance. There's only trouble and desire.
The difference between a cow and a bean is a bean can begin an adventure.
I like all the adventure sports but I like to do them in a safe way.
'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is the best movie for a guy like me. A cerebral adventure. A moving story. A bunch of little green men.
I have always lived my life by thriving on opportunity and adventure. Some of the best ideas come out of the blue, and you have to keep an open mind to see their virtue.
In racing, we have a better chance of it happening quicker because we have attracted good people to come to work for us. It's the beginning of a great adventure, and we're looking forward to it.
Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own.
When I started doing chemistry, I did it the way I fished - for the excitement, the discovery, the adventure, for going after the most elusive catch imaginable in uncharted seas.
Try to live with the same intensity as a child. He doesn't ask for explanations; he dives into each day as if it were a new adventure and, at night, sleeps tired and happy.
'The Desolation of Smaug' stands alone as an action/adventure epic movie. It's visually stunning, and the 3D is incredible. Plus, it's directed by Peter Jackson, and he's extraordinary.
For me, climbing has always been about adventure and that involves difficulties, danger and exposure, so I deliberately set out to climb with as little equipment as possible.
If you loveach other, whatever happens you can deal with it, you can work it out. Because if there's one thing I've learned, it's that it's really not much fun having an adventure with someone you're not in love with.
Start today to follow your heart.
Map out your own journey.
Have the adventure of a lifetime.
I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
I would never say no to anything that sounded interesting! The thing I like about making films is that the adventure just begins when you pick up the camera.
If consensus is overrated, I think balance is, too.
I have no interest in living a balanced life.
I want a life of adventure.
Following Christ is a wild adventure full or risk, frustration, excitement, and setbacks. It is not an evening stroll in a planned community along a well-manicured path.
It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.
Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.
I wanted to go to the extreme in the sense of places that were not explored and meeting people, tribes. I wanted to have an adventure.
Why fear death? Death is only a beautiful adventure.
I always loved action adventure. It is something I always wanted to do.
Your responsibility is to be an explorer, not a tourist in this adventure that is your life.
Most of the fiction on the California Gold Rush makes it sound like one grand, boyish adventure. However, when you read the real history, you realize that it wasn't that way at all.
All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future.
We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.
Every film is a new adventure, and I always meet new cast and crew members that blow my mind.
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.
It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.
I sold my first script when I was 21 - this kids' adventure movie that never got made. I just bought that one back, actually. I'm pretty psyched about it.
A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure.
The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'
The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.
Ghost stories and Sherlock Holmes mysteries were great. And I had a major soft spot for those 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books.
The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it
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