Quotes About Exploration

Always, as a child, I would go around the house, and if I found a word that I didn't know the meaning of, I would write it down and ask my parents to define it and try to memorise it.

I can't really define myself as a dramatist or as an actor or as someone who is interested in music.

I've never felt particularly comfortable in any defined boundaries, ever.

What defines a Western? I've probably seen three my whole life.

Emerald Bay is absolutely beautiful and a definite must see.

I consider myself a rock climber but the definition of rock climbing as has changed.

I don't want to be definitive or the last word on anything.

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

I'm such a generalist. I love everything. If I had the opportunity, I think I would do about 10 different degrees, five different master's degrees, probably as many Ph.D.s, and you can't do that.

Of course, every city has its own character, but I enjoy coming to Delhi.

We travel a lot from Australia and deliberately route ourselves through the U.A.E. because my whole family loves the place.

When you buy my books, you kind of know what you're in for. It's kind of self-selecting. If you have a delicate sensibility, and you're easily grossed out, you probably will never read one of my books.

I'd be more than delighted to go find energy in Club Med. But we've tried and did not find it.

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.

The new normal is continuous learning, and we look for people who demonstrate lots of different interests and really demonstrate curiosity.

When I was a kid, I liked books that just seemed so dense you could lose yourself in them for a whole afternoon. They were like their own whole world.

When I first came out with the Winery Dogs, I had a Bonham set-up. That was such a departure from the huge kits that I had become known for. It was really enjoyable.

Depending on what's happening in the world, what music is coming out, what city I'm in, I do some research on a place I'm going to, get a feel for it, and maybe do something that would be special for that city.

Something like reading depends a lot on just having people around you who talk to you and read you books, more than sitting down and, say, doing a reading drill when you're 3 or 4 years old.

I've never thought about doing international films. But if I get something exciting, I might take it up. Everything depends on what comes my way.

But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.

It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.

I always find the most depressing stuff most interesting.

I like feeling out of my depth.