Quotes About Exploration

I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.

I've seen so many scripts, and I want to do everything. Like with kiteboarding, you have to be fearless. I'm not scared.

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

My Antarctic expedition is just about doable, just feasible and that's what is exciting to me. If I knew it was possible, if I knew I could do it without too much bother, I wouldn't be interested.

I did a lot of short films before doing feature films.

For me, it was two years before I fed a big croc when I came to Australia.

As you go along, you literally collect places. I'm fed up with going to places; I shan't go to anymore.

When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.

I can never be in the same place for too long. It feels like the world is caving in.

I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible.

You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.

But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it.

For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called.

I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.

I'm in love with London. English boys are great. I completely fell in love with it over there.

In all my screenplays, I have been exploring various aspects of femininity.

It didn't take very long for me to feel like the country radio box was a little too small. So that's what 'Don't Fence Me In' was all about.

There aren't any fences to the imagination, and so there shouldn't be any for books.

Festivals are great because you get to just walk around the corner and see a new band that you've heard but not had the chance to check out.

When we build our own colonies, we can do them in near-Earth vicinity, because people are going to want to come back to Earth. Very few people - for a long time, anyway - are going to want to abandon Earth altogether.

I loved reading all kinds of books, but I particularly loved books like 'Red Planet' by Robert Heinlein, which very few people read anymore but is a wonderful science fiction story.

When something in art or music piques my interest, I tend to go check it out, and most things I check out, I'm not very good at. But a few things I've gone to check out have given me back as much love as I gave them, usually much more.

I love to put myself in a situation where I get to break a few things and construct a few cells in me.

A rule about portages: the longer and harder they are, the fewer people will make them.