- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rider Quotes
On adventure writers, race teams, and film.
Two rider quotes pay tribute to Victorian adventure novelist Rider Haggard, with one writer accepting comparison to him as a compliment after growing up reading his African stories, calling it a formative Journey into fiction.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard's African novels.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read all of Rider Haggard's books. For me he had the romance of Africa with a little bit of mysticism. I'm delighted to be looked on as his heir and be categorised as an adventure novelist because that's exactly what I am.
- Race
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you do have a team where every rider has a huge list of results, that means everybody wants to do the race for themselves. The strongest team in the Tour is not the strongest team on paper.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't connect the girl that sang 'Mickey' with the girl who was one of the seven original Lockers or the same girl who was in 'Easy Rider' or the same girl who choreographed David Bowie, Tina Turner, and Bette Midler tours. It's like I've led five lives.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't an expert or even the biggest Dennis Hopper fan in the world. All I knew about him were through his associations with James Dean and Andy Warhol, the fact that he made 'Easy Rider.' I thought his story would have a really great outlaw literary quality to it.
- Ask
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was one of the things that used to be on my rider when I would do my shows. I would always ask for a Klondike bar.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up very much an athlete and very much a swimmer and a dancer and a horse rider and surf lifesaving club, you name it I've probably done it. I just find so much gratification in being physical.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rider and the team need to understand one another and work in the same direction. Then the rider's happy, and only then will the rider be able to give 100%.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.
- Bull
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right before Mag Seven I did a movie called The Bull Rider.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020