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A journey is measured in friends, not miles.
Tim Cahill
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For me, Brett Emerton is the heart and soul of the Australian team. Him signing for Sydney FC, it has to be the biggest catch in the history of Australian football. He's a machine and he's probably the best pro I've ever trained and worked with.
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Adventure travel existed before I started, I just didn’t know it.
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The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong.
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Right whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they lift their heads out of the water in a move known as a spy hop. They find playthings and are particularly fond of swimming repeatedly through clumps of seaweed, which slides over them like a feathered boa.
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New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.
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Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern California, are all believed to have a decided effect on human behavior and are associated with such health problems as migraines, depression, lethargy, and moodiness. Some scientists say that this is a myth.
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My concept of drama requires obstacles, and there's no obstacles in comfort.
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There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place.
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An adventure is never an adventure when it happens. An adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquility.
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Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece.
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I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing pretty soon after that. If I take too long to think about the impossibility of what I'm trying to, I'll be defeated by it.
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I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.
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My first book was called 'Buried Dreams,' about a serial-killer, which was probably about ten years ahead of the serial-killer curve. It was a national bestseller, but it was three years of living in the sewer of this guy's mind.
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My problem with most athletic challenges is training. I'm lazy and find that workouts cut into my drinking time.
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My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that.
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Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.
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The only use for a knife during a shark attack is pure treachery: Stab your buddy, swim like hell, and hope the munchies take him.
Tim Cahill
You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.
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Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility. Occasionally the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations: the big chill, a midlife crisis.
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