Daniel Woodrell Quotes
I'd just lie around all day. It's the chemo, the poison they pump into you. Sometimes I'd be walking across the room and think, 'There it is; I got to rest.' And I had to, right then.
Daniel Woodrell
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
Saffron Aldridge
It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
Walter Becker
Steely Dan
No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
Madeleine Albright
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
Gabrielle Union
I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
Imelda Marcos
I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
Barry Diller
I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.
Banks
As soon as it was clear, in Copenhagen in 2009, that the Senate was blocking Obama from introducing meaningful climate legislation, the push was for him to use executive authority, use the EPA, use the tool of federal leases, and there was just a refusal to do it.
Naomi Klein
If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
Jack Lemmon
I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
Rachel Roy
I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.
Rachel Weisz
In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.
Kary Mullis
In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways to give each other pain.
Karen DeCrow
I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
Damien Chazelle
It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
Ian Mckellen
My life was pretty rough.
Yoko Ono
In life, I take my decisions and stand by them. Some decisions may have proven to be not the best, but I have learnt from them, and I've never repeated a mistake again. If someone tells me to turn left, I will go right! I could not have been taught a lesson in any other way rather than by going through it.
Kajol
I think Americans are - particularly, independent voters are looking at Washington, and they see too many taxes, too much spending, too much debt, too many Washington takeovers, and they want to provide a check and a balance to what they see as a runaway, overreaching Washington government.
Lamar Alexander
I do believe that food lobbies exert enormous, at times insidious, power over what we eat, that our water supplies are not being protected as much as they probably should be and that, in general, people are more interested in smart phones than museums.
Gabrielle Zevin
Sì lungiamente m'ha tenuto Amore e costumato a la sua segnoria
Dante Alighieri
I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.
Mahatma Gandhi
In the end, the market will decide which is the better performer: dirty coal-fired power or clean wind and solar. Market-based competition. That doesn't sound like communism to me.
Frances Beinecke
I'd just lie around all day. It's the chemo, the poison they pump into you. Sometimes I'd be walking across the room and think, 'There it is; I got to rest.' And I had to, right then.
Daniel Woodrell