“I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself. These days there's far more pressure to make a mark, so the temptation is to make adventure television or personality shows. I hope the more didactic approach won't be lost.” YearsShowsJobsLostTelevisionAdventureHugePersonalityApproachAdvantageYears AgoMarkPressureTemptationSecureThese DaysDidactic Author:David Attenborough
“Literature is the adventure. It's the story, it's the fight, it's people falling in love, it's people with deep personality disorders who succeed anyway beyond themselves. That's what great literature is.” PeopleStoriesFallFightingLiteratureAdventurePersonalitySucceedFalling In LoveDisorderGreat LiteraturePersonality Disorders Author:Walter Mosley
“What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into these footpaths that lead beneath brambles and thick tree trunks into the heart of the forest where live those wild beasts, our fellow men? That is true: to escape is the greatest of pleasures; street haunting in winter the greatest of adventures.” MenHeartLinesPleasureWonderGreaterTreeStreetsAdventurePersonalityFellowsWinterDelightForestsBeastThickFellow ManHauntingStraight LinesTrunksWild BeastsDeviateTree TrunksFootpaths Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“Of all the characters I've played, I relate the most to Isabel in Hugo. She's so adventurous and fun. She just loves reading books and those are her adventures. Isabel is a heightened version of my personality.” BookCharacterReadingFunAdventurePersonalityVersionsRelateReading BooksAdventurousLove Of Reading Author:Chloe Grace Moretz
“I like to write adventure stories; that's what I tell myself. But you can't help letting your own personality, your own experiences, slip through.” WritingHelpingStoriesAdventurePersonalitySlips Author:Mick Farren
“Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.” WorldWayMaySelfProblemHumanityLevelsAdventurePersonalityDevelopmentLiftsSheer Author:Norman Vincent Peale