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“I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.”

Thinking Way Littles Different Kids Able Wish Grows Bits My Own Growing Up One Thing Mystery Birth Little Bit Different Ways Farms Exposure

Author:Rachel McAdams

“My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals.”

My Own Animal Mystery Painting Reflection Companion Muse Nature And Animals

Author:Katherine Dunn

“I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately my own, scarcely to be shared with others or even made plausible to them. I habitually read special meanings into things, scenes and places qualities of wonder, beauty, promise, or horror for which there was no external evidence visible or plausible to others. My world was peopled with mysteries, seductive hints, vague menaces, "intimations of immortality.”

World Made Age My Own Quality Wonder Mystery Childhood Middle Special Promise Horror Scene Evidence Immortality Visible Intensity Vague Middle Ages Hints Seductive Menace Plausible

Book:MEMOIRS 1925-1950

Source: MEMOIRS 1925-1950

“The thing is that my first novel, which was basically a mystery adventure story, won quite an important award in Spain for young adult fiction, and because of this it became a very successful book, and right now it's some sort of a standard title, it's read widely in many high schools in Spain, so I think, in a way, I was a victim of my own success in the field of young adult fiction, because it was never my own natural register. I never intended to write that kind of fiction, but I became very successful at it.”

“The evolution of the cosmos invokes in me a sense of mystery; the increase in biodiversity invokes the response of humility; and an understanding of the evolution of death offers me helpful ways to think about my own death.”

Thinking Way Understanding My Own Mystery Humility Evolution Offers Increase Response Cosmos Helpful Invoke Biodiversity

Book:The Sacred Depths of Nature

Source: The Sacred Depths of Nature

“I guess in my own life, privacy, anonymity, and the mystery of being lost are important. I also feel that people are mysterious and complex no matter what they do, and no matter how hard they try to reveal their own mystery.”

People Feels Trying Important Matter Hard Lost My Own Mystery No Matter What Complexes Mysterious Privacy My Own Life Anonymity

Author:Jennifer Egan

“When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction. I'm very fond of mysteries.”

Reading My Own Pleasure Fiction Mystery Materials

Author:David McCullough

“All my pictures are very voyeuristic, but ultimately I'm looking at what lurks in my own interior. I make photographs because I want to answer the question of what propels me to do the things that I do. But that always remains a mystery.”

Want My Own Answers Mystery Remains Photograph Interiors

Author:Gregory Crewdson

“There's a kind of mystery to our being and from my point of view, regarding my own parents and their parents, I'd as soon let it lie than find out who my mother's father was.”

Kind Lying Mother Father Parent My Own Views Mystery Point Of View

Author:T.C. Boyle

“And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.”

Knows Mean I Can Book Can Do My Own Mystery Brave London Start The Day I Can Do This

Book:Discusses the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: The Complete Package for Readers and Leaders

Source: Discusses the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: The Complete Package for Readers and Leaders

“I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.”

Way Reality Form My Own Mystery Abstract Enlightening

Author:Eric Cantona