Quotes by Ian Frazier - Page 1

Siberia is a state of mind.
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Siberia
Mind State
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Russians don't complain, usually.
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Complain
Russians
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People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
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Humor
Misery
People
Russia
Adapt
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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Humor
Disregard
Pieces
Reader
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Siberia is so big, it’s almost more an idea than a place
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Bigs
Ideas
Siberia
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Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can.
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Opportunity
Sometimes
Taken
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Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.
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Charm
Knows
Song
Charms
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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English Speaking
Saws
Siberia
Way
Across
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When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
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Needed
Thinking
Tree
Upset
Climbed
Generally
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I would hate to see the idea of freedom disappear, and I wonder if maybe it will.
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Disappear
Wonder
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
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Cement
Fence
Light
Phones
Posts
Russia
Booths
Phone
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Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.
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Far Away
Needs
People
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Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.
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Humor
Insanity
Nonsense
Adapt
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I believe that when Crazy Horse was killed, something more than a man's life was snuffed out.
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Horse
Life Man Believe
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Leading economists have shown that by shrinking Texas, we can actually create more income for Texas in the long run.
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Running
Income
Long
Texas
Economists
Leading
Long Run
Shown
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There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
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Contemptuous
Heroic
Ideas
Middle Of Nowhere
Nowhere
Plains
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
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Benefits
Despise
Feelings
Obvious
Secret
Texas
No Secret
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America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time.
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Government
America
Benefits
Reducing
Texas
Fully
Provided
Same Time
Vital
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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Chance
Important
Reader
Thinking
Listener
Supply
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I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.
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Russia
Siberia
Great Time
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Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended against them.
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Bummer
Different Kinds
Russia
Defended
Suffer
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Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.
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Imagination
Changed
Limitless
Size
Europeans
Inland
Settled
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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Art
American West
Beautiful
Beautiful Art
Indian
Objects
Blankets
Collect
Art Beautiful Most Beautiful
In My Opinion
Most Beautiful
Pots
Remain
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I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
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Forever
Genre
Superficial
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I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.
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Losing
Curses
Suppose
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On two or three book tours, I have visited bookstores in the Mall of America and signed copies of my books and introduced myself to store employees who I hope will sell them.
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Bookstores
Copies
Tours
Employees
Sell
Introduced
Mall
Signed
Store
Visited
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I'm one of those people who happen to like trees. I don't know why - I just do. As a kid, I loved to climb them. The distant, upper branches, especially, were celestial and alluring.
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Alluring
Branches
Celestial
People Know Why
Climb
Distant
Upper
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I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.
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Book
Dollars
People
Profession
Salesman
Twenties
Twenty Five
I Am Me People
Attempt
Author
Me I Am People
Hardcover
Persuade
Traveling
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Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.
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Connections
Human Connection
Okay
Patronage
Way
Work Way Know
District
Connection
Governor
System
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
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Clothes
Cowboy
Cowboy Hat
Humdrum
Anyone
Work Dress Me
Prefer
Work Better Me
Detail
Dress
Hat
Imitate
Indians
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When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West.
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Coast
Daylight
East
East Coast
Glowing
Light
Nice
West
Brick
Changing
Lights
Starts
Windows
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A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.
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Opportunity
Attention
Book
Good Opportunity
Names
Pay Attention
Salespeople
Selling
Wander
Good Opportunity Your
Book Tour
Summarize
Tour
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To me, a bag in a tree is like a flag of chaos, and when I remove it, I'm capturing the flag of the other side. In the end, it doesn't matter how ironic or serious or even effective on a larger scale bag snagging may be.
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Chaos
Ironic
Remove
Tree
Scale
Bag
Capturing
Effective
Flag
In The End
Larger Scale
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Roy Blount is so funny, and he sounds like he's just talking, and the next thing you know he has tossed off an essay as elegant and intricately structured as a birdsong. His ear for American speech is better than anybody's.
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Ears
Sound
Talking
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With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.
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All Day
Respond
Page
Pull
Reporting
Work Hard
Working Hard
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I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I'm content with what little religion I already have.
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Men
Indian
Medicine
Religious
Sun
Sweat
Traditional
Pray
Appeal
Content
Ceremonies
Lodge
Participate
Quest
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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Program
Siberia
Great People Way
Drive
Cross
Dozens
Drove
Plains
Railroad
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America to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I'm not in, and then I get there and find myself in a traffic jam going into the Lincoln Tunnel, and I think, 'God, why was I romanticizing this part of the country?' I think it has to do with the romantic, unrealistic temperament.
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Jam
Nostalgia
Temperament
Traffic
Lincoln
Tunnel
Unrealistic
Varied
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When I go to Indian reservations in the West, and especially to the Pine Ridge Reservation, I sometimes feel unsure where to put my foot when I open the car door. The very ground is different from where I usually stand. There are fewer curbs, fewer sidewalks, and almost no street signs, mailboxes, or leashed dogs.
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Fewer
Indian
Unsure
Dogs
Foot
Pine
Reservation
Ridge
Signs
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Cursing dads are terrifying, you know? Cursing dads are - I don't know why, but no. It just doesn't seem to me that that would be funny. I mean it might be - you could try it and see. I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.
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Dad
Mean
Thinking
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