Daniel Woodrell Quotes
One of the interesting things about the Ozarks is you just about don't have street crime. It's strictly between people who know each other. It really isn't indiscriminate; it's kind of between themselves.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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The facts are on our side.
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Williams really does feel like a family, and I have built up very good relationships with people here; in fact, some of my best friends work for Williams. A friendly atmosphere can really help on the track as well because I feel like I can communicate freely with the team.
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I didn't want to be the girl who posed in 'Playboy' and then - by the way - made some music.
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I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.
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It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.
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I think that Oprah's on a mission to improve the lives of the average American in various ways. And one of them is to bring literature to people who would normally not be quite as demanding in their reading tastes, to show them writing that can be more than just entertainment.
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In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.
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One of the interesting things about the Ozarks is you just about don't have street crime. It's strictly between people who know each other. It really isn't indiscriminate; it's kind of between themselves.
