Tim Cahill Quotes - Page 2

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• My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really didn't know what I wanted to write, and I did a bunch of investigative journalism.

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  Jobs, Real, Writing

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

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• It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there's a blizzard outside and the cows are on their backs with their hooves in the air.

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  Writing, Air, Cows

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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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  Dream, Book, Curves

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

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• It occurred to me that for a long time I tried not to write about my own backyard and my home. I suppose I was selfishly keeping it to my self. And in doing so, I was never able to get out into this incredible wilderness area - by the way, I live right at the edge of the most incredible wilderness area probably in the northern hemisphere.

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  Home, Writing, Self

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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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.

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  Sharks, Knives, Swim

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• Many people go into the wilderness to experience it, and if they experience it in comfort, there's very little in a literary sense for them to write about.

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  Writing, People, Comfort

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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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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  Workout, Drinking, Cutting

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• In my life outdoors, I've observed that animals of almost any variety will stand in a windy place rather than in a protected, windless area infested with biting insects. They would rather be annoyed by the wind than bitten.

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  Animal, Wind, Annoyed

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• I have no problem with the adventure travel movement. It makes better, more sensitive people. If you get people diving on a coral reef, they're going to become more respectful of the outdoors and more concerned with the threats that places like that face and they're going to care more about protecting them than they would have before.

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  Adventure, People, Movement

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• You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

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  Travel, Writing, Funny Travel

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• An adventure is never an adventure while it's happening. Challenging experiences need time to ferment, and adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquillity.

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  Time, Adventure, Emotional

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• The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an abandoned cabin, and the last men will look to them for explanations, or apologies.

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  Dream, Lying, Eye

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

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• A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which I find an inspiring idea...Thus, when we allow ourselves to imagine as we once did, we know, with a sudden jarring clarity, that if we don't go right now, we're never going to do it. And we'll be haunted by our unrealized dreams and know that we have sinned against ourselves gravely.

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  Dream, Ambition, Adventure

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• Healthier, perhaps, to find beauty in life and feel it expand inside of us.

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  Beauty Of Life, Feels

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• Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn.

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  Art, Writing, Editors

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• The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.

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  Fashion, Art, Finding The One

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

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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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  Art, Writing, Bored

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• Adventure travel existed before I started, I just didn’t know it.

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  Adventure, Travel Adventure, Knows

  "Noted travel writer discusses changing world of travel". Interview with Peter Delevett, www.mercurynews.com. June 2, 2010.

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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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  Home, Vacation, Ideas

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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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  Art, New Orleans, Excellence

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• As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American writing going back to James Fennimore Cooper and then through Twain up to Hemingway had been outdoor writing. At that time, adventure writing meant stuff like 'Saga' or 'Argosy.' 'Death Race with the Jungle Leper Army!' That kind of thing.

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  Writing, Adventure, Army

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• Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other.

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  Ponies, Layers, Firsts

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• For many years I thought my job was to go to places where it would be difficult for most of the readers to ever get to. Now, in the more than 20 years I've been doing this, the concept of adventure-travel trips or expeditions by groups has sprung up. The places I went 20 years ago now have adventure-travel trips.

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  Jobs, Adventure, Sprung Up

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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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  California, Europe, Wind

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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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