Daniel Woodrell Quotes
I'd met some awfully tough gals in my life, and I find them compelling, if I don't have to socialize with them too much.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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I believe in my music.
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I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
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I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.
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You'll see me on 'Top Chef' someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?
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I've been fortunate enough in my career that I haven't been typecast at all.
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Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
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The closest thing I use to beauty products is the grease on the pizza from John's Pizzeria.
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I'd met some awfully tough gals in my life, and I find them compelling, if I don't have to socialize with them too much.
