Chris Darwin famous quotes
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Life is brought down to the basics: if you are warm, regular, healthy, not thirsty or hungry, then you are not on a mountain... Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop.
-- Chris Darwin -
Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop.
-- Chris Darwin
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Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.
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Have a determination that is strong enough to move walls.
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Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.
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Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall. .
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I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn't want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment.
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To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.
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When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.
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Yeah, I mean, climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I've had family, but no, it's been a driving passion in my life and, uh, I've always wanted to climb the Matterhorn. It was the mountain that, sort of, inspired me to climb, as a youngster. So, it was great to be able to get to do it.
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There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)
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There are very few things you can really do [to promote] healthy aging ... and none of these things include an insurance system or a legal system. All those things do is change who pays.
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