Pat Smear Quotes

I love talking to strangers and absorb their life experiences.

I like to talk about my life.

I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books.

My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.

'Warm Bodies' ended up becoming one of the most personal relatable things I've written.

I think what I love about the documentary process is that you bring yourself to the documentary. And hopefully that makes you ask good questions, and hopefully that makes you reveal a little bit about yourself as well.

You discover yourself through the research of your work.

To go somewhere where nobody knows you, and to keep your eyes open... That was a beautiful concept in terms of putting yourself in a place to be inspired.

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence.

I want to challenge people to find out who they are.

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

We'll have these people hang out with us while we're doing our touring, and talk to them and let them speak their piece to the world.

Great storytellers in the past would go to an unknown land and return to tell the stories they've found. Those were also journeys into their inner psyches and that's still true today. An actor, a writer, does that as if saying, 'Here's what I've discovered about myself and about the world I'm in. I would like to share this with you.'

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

I saw that my camera gave me a sense of connection with others that I never had before. It allowed me to enter lives, satisfying a curiosity that was always there but that was never explored before.