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"I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there."
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"Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can."
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"The thing about Ayers Rock is that by the time you finally get there you are already a little sick of it."
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"I built my home in the feeling of waking up at dawn in a new city, where every road is the right road because there is no ordinary. Everything is as profound as you make it."
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"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."
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"But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses."
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"It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent."
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"A fondness for roving, for making a name for themselves in their onw country, and for boasting of what they had seen in their travels, was so strong in our two wanderers, that they resolved to be no longer happy; and demanded permission of the king to leave the country."
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"He didn't really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself."
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"Everywhere you travel to, be fully there."
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"We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off."
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"I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there."
Travel
"The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States."
Power
"I was molded, spent my time underneath a lot of goo. And then the bits and pieces were sculpted. It took probably 10 days to create each character after all those camera tests."
Time
"I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories."
Act
"Forget acting. It's all about rock 'n' roll."
Acting
"What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?"
Shakespeare
"I suppose if it has a practical purpose, I appreciate a pat on the back. I suppose it's rewarding, ultimately."
Purpose
"Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man."
Attention
"If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place."
War
"Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good."
Movies
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