Quotes About Exploration

I find that it's really important for me to imagine characters and situations. That allows me a lot of freedom.

I enjoy putting my mind into different situations rather than my body.

To me, families are fascinating. I choose to explore it through comedy and through comic situations.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

Even when you're out with someone, you need to get out of your head. And you can try exercises by putting yourself in situations where you may not feel completely comfortable, like going to a gallery opening on your own.

I think probably with any performer, but maybe with rock music especially, the audience wants to see the singer being real, and exploring, and not doing a rehearsed routine, so I'm just constantly looking for new things to try. I'm really curious out there, and my curiosity has led me into all kinds of bizarre situations.

Creating films and photographs through situations that few others could experience is my life's inspiration.

I love to throw myself into situations where I don't understand everything yet.

If you don't travel the world and see as much of it as you can - see different characters in different situations - then how are you going to learn? I figured the best way to do that was to explore as much as I could.

Maybe in my life I sort of put myself in situations that were chaotic, outside of my life.

This is one of the reasons I like to act - it's because acting forces you into situations you don't know.

Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.

I'm a gemini, and I get so bored so easily. I mean, I have moved six times in the last eight years.

On the 27th we came to the Cascade Rapids. The first or Little Cascade has about two feet fall, the second or Grand Cascade, a mile farther, is about a six foot sheer drop.

I used to take my car and go down to the South Island for five or six days and climb glaciers and jump out of planes and jump off bridges and go white water rafting - a bit of thrill-seeking.

I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen.

Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.

When I lived in L.A. full time, I moved often - fourteen different neighbourhoods in sixteen years.

'Stand By Me' was really great for me and my buddies; we'd all watch that together because that was us - we were down in the creek and hanging out every day and going on little adventures. I had about sixteen friends who are all about the same age as me and lived in a three-block radius. We spent our entire childhood down in that creek.

I am not made for lonely expeditions. In the sixties, I climbed during the day so I wouldn't have to be alone. I finally learned to stay up for weeks in the high altitude all by my own without being afraid.

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.

In space-flight terms, six landings on the moon back in the Sixties and Seventies doesn't mean much.

I never went overseas until I left school and joined West Ham United Football Club at the beginning of the Sixties.

I've been combing through the Wolverine archives and advertisements from the sixties and seventies. I'm looking to take inspiration from designs of the past and bring them into the future.