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Most people prepare for travels by reading about their destination; it always seemed an odd approach to me. I find it much easier and more pleasant to focus with the sights and smells of a place rattling around in my mind.


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MICHAEL DIAMOND Yauch was great at lacking fear.
MICHAEL DIAMOND I believed, up to last week, that Adam was somehow coming back. But I wouldn't trade that optimi...
MICHAEL DIAMOND The sport of shooting is my life.
MICHAEL DIAMOND Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.
MICHAEL DIAMOND Honestly achieved results surpass all others.
MICHAEL DIAMOND I find that it's best to take one step at a time and cross each bridge as they come to you.
MICHAEL STUHLBARG I hate leg exercises. I hate one-legged squats. I hate the hurdles and the split squats. I hate all ...
MICHAEL STRAHAN It is no small thing for an American to be able to go into a fast-food restaurant and to buy a doubl...
MICHAEL POLLAN Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Net...
MICHAEL CAINE I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.
MICHAEL JACKSON What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, esca...
MICHAEL LEUNIG There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to b...
MICHAEL NUTTER In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, st...
MICHAEL HANEKE Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your thr...
MICHAEL ROOKER The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle...
MICHAEL LEUNIG