Places Quotations | Page 7

Nowadays, social media is the easiest place to go to find something.

I love being in the archives, traveling, sitting in dusty places and looking at books with brittle pages. I love reading biographies and researching, to make myself informed about whatever political or historical time I'm writing about. From there, a lot of the emotional truths about my characters emerge.

I have spoken to distance runners who, as exhaustion approaches, pick their stopping places a mile in advance, with the rule that any place more distant can be picked at any time before they reach the current target, and once picked even by the most fleeting resolve it becomes controlling.

I have a lot in common with Lewis Carroll's Alice (my favorite female literary heroine, besides Becky Sharp). I've been sent on a journey to places even bleach can't reach.

I have always been a singer/songwriter, and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty. I don't belong there.

With the reaction that we got from the family version, people clearly made a statement that they wanted that international element in the show. I think it showed that the places are as much stars in the show as the people themselves. People were missing that exotic element ? that fish-out-of-water element where people were completely and utterly dumbfounded as to what to do because of culture shock and language barriers. They missed that. And I think that is a huge hook for us.

Wait until the commissioners in New York and other places get a load of the gate the show in Anaheim. And Nevada is bringing in a ton of money on these shows.

Very few graduates have that combination of skills ... many students are shying away from language courses and travelling to places like Indonesia or Malaysia because of the terror warnings.

Most places you spearfish, you're just over natural terrain so there will be a limiting depth. There is not a whole lot of structure on your way down, ... But here, on an oil platform, there are fish that hang out at all different levels. That is probably one of the most unique things.

Most of the timely rains came when we needed them, although there were places that could have used more.