Daniel Woodrell Quotes
I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books, I have to start a new direction.
Quotes to Explore
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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As a lot of the venture capital world seems to be shifting away from consumer, we want to make sure that consumer entrepreneurs know there's still money available.
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I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.
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I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, 'If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again.' So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There's a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested.
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One thing I am sure of is that I won't judge a dance reality show.
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New York is such a diverse place in and of itself, it would be ridiculous to see it otherwise.
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The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
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I see myself like what Drake did in the game. I came with melodies and different lyrics, from a different place - reggaeton is from Puerto Rico; Drake is from Canada.
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Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one ... So long as one sees killing as wrong there is no need to waste time with the deterrent argument, since it would be nonsense to try to prevent a theoretical evil in the future by perpetrating an actual one in the present.
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It is not necessary to succeed in order to persevere. As long as there is a margin of hope, however narrow, we have no choice but to base all our actions on that margin. America and Russia have one interest in common which may override all their other interests: to be able to live with the bomb without getting into an all-out war that neither of them wants.
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I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!
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I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books, I have to start a new direction.
