Daniel Woodrell Quotes
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.
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I didn't even start college until I was 21.
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I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because there is no going back, I'm forced to begin a new book so I can finally complete the previous one.
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I am a Democrat. But I am an independent Democrat.
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I've known Mark Hughes for half a lifetime. We joined Barcelona in the same summer of 1986, played together under Terry Venables and Luis Aragones, and have kept in touch ever since.
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I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.
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In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
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It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.
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I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.
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The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
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I like throwing snowballs at small children.
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I began in radio in 1997 on a radio show hosted by a now very famous comic, Jamel Debbouze. I would fake call listeners.
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Is all the world jails and churches?
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Some old people, they remember that they used to play clarinet, and they remember the squeaks of the clarinet. But I don't play like that.
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At home I can become lazy and if a Welsh word is really long, I just replace it with English.
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I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.
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I want to learn how to do balloon art and make dolphins.
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I wanted to be a poet. I fell in love with poetry around eight years old, but not through literature. Instead, it came through hip-hop lyrics and my obsession with reading liner notes. Queen Latifah's 'Black Reign' is the album that stands out the most.
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If I weren't so lazy, I would have 14 books, not eight.
