- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Home Quotes
On comfort, safety and the pull of staying home.
These quotes look at home as both refuge and responsibility: the shock of no longer feeling safe in a place that once felt untouchable, and a quieter preference for staying in over going out. For more, see our Family quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The home is the chief school of human virtues.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
- Fantasy World
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- Nov 07, 2020
At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny things became my escape.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She spoke to some friends, received some instructions from the provincial school board, and found some interesting books that perhaps I might find useful.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's more pressure as a writer. As an actor you usually just go, do your job, and go home.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like there's a dangerous culture among young actors of going to posey joints and socialising - not doing hard work. I don't want to go and hang out in Soho House L.A. That's literally my worst nightmare. I'd rather be at home reading scripts.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I left home to go to college, and then I moved back home. I moved back for three years from 21 to 24.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right before 'Nebraska,' I went to Ireland to do this little movie called 'Run & Jump.' It was so far away from home, I felt a real safety to explore a different kind of role. I loved how it turned out.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Changes in Latitudes' began when I was looking at a photograph of a sea turtle swimming underwater. I had such a strong feeling for the beauty of this ancient creature, at home in the sea. On the spot, I wanted to swim with that turtle. I began to imagine a character who would do just that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seven of my novels take place in the Southwest, in the Four Corners area which has been my home since 1973. I know these mountains, rivers, mesas and canyons well, so it's been natural for me to draw on my own personal experiences here.
- Alongside
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first job out of college was six weeks of picking fruit alongside a dozen or so men from Mexico. The orchard was in Emmett, Idaho. The men spent almost nothing on themselves. Their paychecks went directly to their families back home.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.
- Fading
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- Nov 07, 2020