428 quotes found
“In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.”
“Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.”
“When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.”
“Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.”
“On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.”
“Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.”
“You can't test courage cautiously.”
“You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.”
“You get educated by traveling.”
“What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?”
“One of the things the 'Tao of Travel' shows is how unforthcoming most travel writers are, how most travelers are. They don't tell you who they were traveling with, and they're not very reliable abo...”
“The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of being the first person in a new place.”
“The bottom line is, if you're pregnant, don't travel to an area where Zika is spreading.”
“North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.”
“You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my exp...”
“There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.”
“Even before you get to self-driving vehicles, there's just a huge amount of positive things that happen to cities when you do ridesharing.”
“If you don't have your health, you don't have anything.”
“If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.”
“And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.”
