Daniel Woodrell Quotes
I guess it's ridiculously romantic, but I wanted to be a full tilt, sink-or-swim writer.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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Some on the Left can be very selective about the kinds of violence they oppose. For some of them, gun violence is a crime to be decried - unless it is committed by an 'aggrieved' victim against what they consider a corrupt institution.
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We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
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It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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My original dream was to become a singer-songwriter, so I sent a video of myself playing the piano and singing to all the big agencies.
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Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.
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In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.
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I have always believed that resistance against repression and violence is possible without relying on similar repression and violence. I have always believed that human civilization is the fruit of the effort of both women and men.
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Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.
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If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
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One experiments and has to choose always the best results.
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Robert Fisk is my hero. In America, they think he's a terrorist.
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God, beam me up!
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It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists... I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.
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If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.
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There are so many people I know who could be the greatest film-maker but who will never get the chance to make a movie; it's all about what somebody is going to make back. There are not a lot of romantic ideas about making movies anymore.
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I guess it's ridiculously romantic, but I wanted to be a full tilt, sink-or-swim writer.
