The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
JOHN BURROUGHSLike tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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