Daniel Woodrell Quotes

I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.

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• I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Ideas

• People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Like
  • Popular

• As for the device we now call a TV or a cable box, I want it to be fast with a clean interface and seamlessly upgradeable to the latest software. I want it to be the primary source of all TV, not an ancillary device.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Want
  • Software
  • Box

• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Years
  • Living

• And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • May
  • Think

• We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Time
  • Think
  • Care

• The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • Time
  • Work
  • Experience

• A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.

  

  Adam Draper
  • You
  • Succeed
  • Where

• I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Best
  • Feel
  • Doing

• That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Great
  • Long
  • Television

• If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.

  

  Larry Page
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Way
  • Change
  • Woman

• When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Attention
  • Say
  • Everyone

• I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Away
  • Pass

• I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Family
  • Girl
  • Second Chance

• My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Mother

• Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Money
  • Power
  • Shadow

• Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Today
  • Nuclear Weapons

• We, the undersigned, gathered in Pilgrimage to the capital of the State in Sacramento in penance for all the failings of Farm Workers as free and sovereign men, do solemnly declare before the civilized world which judges our actions, and before the nation to which we belong, the propositions we have formulated to end the injustice that oppresses us.

  

  Cesar Chavez
  • World
  • Men
  • Free

• My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.

  

  Lillie Langtry
  • Drawing

• Now I'm more behaved, I think it's age, you get older, more responsible, more quiet. But if I would want to dye my hair, for example red or blue, be sure that I'll dye it!

  

  Neymar
  • Red
  • Responsible
  • Behaved

• The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.

  

  Eli Broad
  • School
  • Dream
  • Education

• I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.

  

  Daniel Woodrell
  • Family