Sue Hubbell famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I have stopped sleeping inside. A house is too small, too confining. I want the whole world, and the stars too.
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I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let me, remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human.
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Then there is that other appeal, the stronger one, of spending, during certain parts of the year, a ten- or twelve- hour working day with bees, which are, when all is said and done, simply a bunch of bugs. But spending my days in close and intimate contact with creatures who are structured so differently from humans, and who get on with life in such a different way, is like being a visitor in an alien but ineffably engaging world.
-- Sue Hubbell
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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A GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard.
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Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.
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Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine.
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If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.
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Sleeping on it didn't make accepting it any easier. It seemed like a really bad dream.
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On eyes that watch as well as eyes that weep Descends the solemn mystery of sleep, Toiling and climbing to the very close, The weary Body, longing for repose, On the gained level of the day's ascent, Halts for the night and pitches there its tent.
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Speaking of sleeping bags, has anything ever had a less creative name?
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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I grew up in a house that liked to be funny. Everybody liked to be funny. My family's been...we've been enjoying each other's comedy for years.
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