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Island Quotes
No place stands entirely alone.
This page brings together quotes about islands as places of memory, transit, and story, from a call to bear witness for a community to a documentary that resisted familiar crime-film conventions. Related themes continue in the First collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
While scuba diving off the British Virgin Islands about 25 years ago, our boat's anchor got stuck. I dived down to release it, but I got separated from the boat and was stranded as it sped away. I had to swim for an hour to the nearest island with all my scuba kit on before I was rescued.
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I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started.
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I never watched 'Harper's Island.'
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Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.
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Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
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I thought it's very funny that I ended up as a voiceover guy because when I started out as an actor, I had a very strong Long Island accent.
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Strictly' is nothing like 'Love Island'… absolutely not.
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I like to be grounded by nature, go hiking... go to an isolated island that's not glamorous and touristy at all.
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Staten Island is segregated, but it's also - I don't know. It's, like, it's not - it's not unprogressive.
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Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020