Tim Cahill Quotes

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• When you've managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown - either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own creative ineptitude - there is no one there to hold your hand or tell you what to do. In those bad lost moments, in the times when are advised not to panic, we own the unknown, and the world belongs to us. The child within has full reign. Few of us are ever so free

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  Children, Heart, Hands

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• I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.

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  Dream, Travel, Adventure

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• A journey is measured in friends, not miles.

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  Journey, Miles

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• No amount of money could make me play for Liverpool, that isn't disrespect to Liverpool or their fans, it's respect for Everton

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  Play, Disrespect, Fans

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• I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It's the way you react as a footballer. I use it all to make me play better.

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  Love You, Play, Criticism

  "Shooting star: Tim Cahill". Interview with Dan Rookwood, www.smh.com.au. April 2, 2009.

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• A constant ongoing joke among the people that I travel with is my absolutely hopeless sense of direction. I'm able to get lost a half an hour from camp. I don't know how I do this.

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  People, Ongoing, Half

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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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  Morning, Writing, Thinking

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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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  Dream, Jobs, Responsibility

  Tim Cahill (1987). “Jaguars ripped my flesh: adventure is a risky business”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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• My concept of drama requires obstacles, and there's no obstacles in comfort.

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  Drama, Comfort, Obstacles

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I see many people trying to write well about the wilderness, and essentially failing. To me there are basically two aspects of a failed outdoor story. One is the phony epiphany on the mountain top.

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  Writing, Two, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The explorer is the person who is lost.

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  Lost, Mathematical, Persons

  Tim Cahill (1987). “Jaguars ripped my flesh: adventure is a risky business”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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• A lot of the physical flirtation with fear I did early on in my career, when I was a much younger person - stuff I wouldn't do now. But I was very interested in the mechanics of risk and fear in those days. And I found out fear pretty much always feels the same, whether it's doing a rock climb or speaking in front of an audience.

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  Rocks, Careers, Risk

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• The sensual caress of waist deep cold smoke.... glory in skiing virgin snow, in being the first to mark the powder with the signature of their run.

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  Running, Snow, Sensual

  Tim Cahill (1989). “A Wolverine is Eating My Leg”, Vintage

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• 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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  Art, Writing, Firsts

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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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  Feelings, Black, Drs

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• Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.

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  Art, Gold, Coal

  Tim Cahill (1987). “Jaguars ripped my flesh: adventure is a risky business”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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• In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.

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  House, Paychecks

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• The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong.

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  Dirty, Writing, Adventure

  "Wild Life: An Interview With Tim Cahill". Interview with Erik Kancler, www.motherjones.com. March 25, 2005.

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• For me, to find a place that doesn't have an organized tour going to it is becoming more and more difficult. A lot of times it involves danger of a political nature - places where the adventure-travel trips can't go because they can't get any liability insurance.

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  Adventure, Political, Becoming

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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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  Moving, Swimming, Whales

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• Editors, for the most part, don't care ''what'' you've done, or how astounding the physical event may have been. You need to write well. Many others are capable of doing what you have done (probably), so you must write better than they.

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  Writing, Editors, May

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• I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.

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  Teenage, Years, Would Be

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• The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore.

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  African American, Style, Cases

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• Stanley Kubrick, I had been told, hates interviews. It's hard to know what to expect of the man if you've only seen his films. One senses in those films painstaking craftsmanship, a furious intellect at work, a single-minded devotion.

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  Hate, Men, Interviews

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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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  Football, Team, Heart

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