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- Nov 07, 2020
Environmentalists aren't nearly sensitive enough to the fact that they are messing around with struggling people and their livelihoods. They forget that the fishermen are the people with the most immediate vested interest in having a healthy sea.
- Haul
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- Nov 07, 2020
My most memorable job was on a lobster boat. I was a pretty strong kid, and they just needed someone who could haul pots on 200 ft. of line.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What you seem to find when you get into this biography business is that people tend to have an image of themselves that they want to project, and they want to color statements by this image.
- Nov 07, 2020
You could be a locavore in Florida or southern California. But I tried that. It was really limiting.
- Nov 07, 2020
Americans are so egocentric.
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Havana, for all its smells, sweat, crumbling walls, isolation, and difficult history, is the most romantic city in the world.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an urban person.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
People in America think of it as a sad and downtrodden place, and I guess it could be, but it's not because that's not who Cubans are. In Cuba, you get a good story every day you go out walking. People are so funny.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have this whole section in my oyster book where I talk about how New Yorkers have gotten divorced from the sea and completely forget that they live by the sea, and I suggest that this happened when they lost their oysters.
- Open
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- Nov 07, 2020
You read about these oyster-shucking contests: Somebody did 100 oysters in three minutes, three seconds. I'm lucky if I can open one in three minutes, three seconds.
- Fishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Commercial fishing is always so behind the curve of technology that they were building ships with wooden hulls and masts in the 1940s, though it also had a diesel engine, which probably was used most of the time.
- Impact
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- Nov 07, 2020
The impact of the Vietnam War on TV made everyone recognize the importance of visual media.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the course of my research, I've read a lot of incredibly bad books - mostly by academics. I'm puzzled as to just why their writing is so terrible. These are smart people, after all.
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