Daniel Woodrell Quotes
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I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.
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Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.
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When I was about 12, I was studying Chinese and ballet with my brother, and one morning Jonathan said to me, 'I don't think I'm going to go to ballet class anymore,' and I looked at him and said, 'You know, I don't think I'm going to go to Chinese class anymore.'
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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I am definitely a worrier.
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I'm a sucker for doing something fun. If somebody wants to pay me to learn how to fly a plane or be a better golfer, that certainly would be a plus - or if it's filming in Tahiti.
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Angels are like diamonds. They can't be made, you have to find them. Each one is unique.
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The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.
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We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
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That's silly talk... Talk to my wife. She'll tell me I need to learn to just put my socks on the hamper.
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In the face of Russian aggression, we’re not going to turn our back to our allies in Europe. We’re going to stay united in NATO, which is the world’s strongest alliance.
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To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.
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We see only the script and not the paper on which the script is written. The paper is there, whether the script is on it or not. To those who look upon the script as real, you have to say that it is unreal-an illusion-since it rests upon paper. The wise person looks upon both paper and script as one.
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'... You see, you are an optimist and live on hope. I am a pessimist and live on experience.'
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And all the way, to guide their chime,With falling oars they kept the time.
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My son is such a lover, such a caretaker and so funny. He's seven, and he genuinely cracks me up. And my daughter is a fearless powerhouse. They fill me with wonder and admiration.
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I can count on one hand the number of times I've done SoulCycle. I was not soul'd.
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I'm a working actor so I never really pick a film because of a genre, and I don't really turn them down because of genre. Anything that's unlike the picture I just finished is always more interesting.
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Nobody wanted to touch Decline III when they found out what it was about.
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I've had a wonderful life with music.
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I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much.
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I was saying to myself that I would love to try it once, just one time, to know what it's like to make a movie in Hollywood. I was so curious because most of my favorite directors were there. There's a history; there's a way of working.
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Absence of failure does not constitute success.
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I liked my fellow Marines. I didn't like pointless orders.
