Islands Quotes - Page 37

• I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit in the wilderness in New Zealand. I stayed in a warden's hut two-and-a-half hours off the Routeburn Track through the fjords on the South Island. It was early winter, so there was no electricity or running water.

  Jane Campion

  Running, Winter, Cutting

  "Jane Campion: 'I make films so I can have fun with the characters'". Interview with Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2009.

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• Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.

  Christopher Columbus

  Morning, Night, Anchors

  Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.41

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• I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.

  Billy Connolly

  Drawing, Desert, Shapes

  "Billy Connolly: 'My ambition is to be regarded as a nuisance'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

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• You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.

  Donny Osmond

  Thinking, Hype, Identity

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• Getting to do what I think was my fifth BBC drama with Nikki Amuka-Bird - we've done 'Shoot The Messenger,' 'Five Days,' 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,' 'Born Equal' and now 'Small Island' - was another highlight for me. And filming in Jamaica was great, too.

  David Oyelowo

  Drama, Thinking, Agency

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• I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert.

  Michael Palin

  Iran, Desert, Exotic

  "Michael Palin: 'I will die, but not retire'" by John Plunkett, www.theguardian.com. July 04, 2013.

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• Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.

  Shimon Peres

  Ocean, Mean, Opportunity

  "We in Israel welcome the Arab spring" by Shimon Pere, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.

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• It sucks, but no Long Islands or margaritas when you drink. It has to be straight vodka.

  Nicole Polizzi

  Long, Drink, Vodka

  "Snooki reveals her weight loss secret -- vodka, straight up!" by Ree Hines, www.today.com. August 31, 2011.

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• I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' tales of chivalry and knights, things like that. Those are the stories I loved growing up.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Mom, Growing Up, Dad

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• If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.

  Anne Roiphe

  Book, Desert, Planning

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• England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.

  Salman Rushdie

  Sea, Way, England

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• When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets. We know Mitt Romney never met a tax haven he didn't like. But his new favorite tax haven is actually not the Cayman Islands - its Paul Ryan's budget.

  Charles Schumer

  Reform, Want, Mets

  Charles Schumer's Speech at the Democratic National Convention, in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like going from hot dogs and hamburgers to beef stroganoff, or from ice cream in a cone to creme brulee.

  Richard Simmons

  Dog, Ice Cream, Salad Dressing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I go on a hunting safari at least once a year to Botswana, which is fantastic because we have a huge area of wilderness entirely to ourselves. My island covers roughly 55 acres, which again I have to myself, with nearly half a kilometre of private beach with my own jetties and boats.

  Wilbur Smith

  Beach, Hunting, Years

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• Usually halfway through a book I have a serious depression, so I go on safari on my ranch in South Africa, or fishing off my island in the Seychelles. When I come back and re-read it, I think: 'What was all that about, Smith? It's fine, just get on with it.'

  Wilbur Smith

  Book, Thinking, Fishing

  "This much I know". Interview with Hilly Janes, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2003.

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• I have a massage when I want to relax. I love being pampered. I love island massages when you're outside in the fresh air.

  Angie Stone

  Air, Relax, Want

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• Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.

  Desmond Tutu

  Country, Lying, Sea

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• Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Wine, Champagne, Salons

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• The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini.

  Tom Waits

  Sight, Two, Bombs

  "Tom Waits Interviews Tom Waits". www.npr.org. May 20, 2008.

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• We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Artist, Color, Pirate

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• When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover. And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn't just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas. It hits Rhode Island with floods and storms.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Country, Texas, Rhode Island

  "It Only Took Five Minutes for Democrats to Politicize the Oklahoma Tornado". "The Rush Limbaugh Show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. May 21, 2013.

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• We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.

  Rainn Wilson

  Teenager, Long, People

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• With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new jazzitude, would have entered Washington discourse, but it remains a landlocked island unto itself, held captive by its tribal fevers.

  James Wolcott

  Thinking, President, Firsts

  "What’s Wrong With Washington?" by James Wolcott, www.vanityfair.com. May 2009.

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• From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human activity is an island.

  Julian Baggini

  Borders, Wandering Around, Fuzzy

  "Great minds don't think alike" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2008.

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• Looking out over the port of Dover, with the endless steam of boats coming in and out, every British citizen is reminded that belonging here has never been about blood or genes. It's simply about being at home on this discrete island and being aware of the privileges and responsibilities that brings.

  Julian Baggini

  Home, Responsibility, Blood

  "Why the white cliffs of Dover are so special" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2012.

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