Daniel Woodrell Quotes
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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Every season, I'm like, 'Who knows if I'm going to get another job?'
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
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From being a waiter, to a door-to-door salesman, to a car-washer, to a delivery boy - I have done it all.
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My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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Like most people - unless they're very practised at it or have no warm blood at all in their veins - I feel a little apprehensive about the red carpet. It's always a bit bewildering when people are taking pictures and asking questions before the ceremony.
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At that moment in time when we feel like the other, we were not the person embraced, not one of the cool kids, not in the club - when you're that person, it makes you feel smaller, and when they persecute you as a result, that's a difficult position to be in.
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I think there's a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.
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I have an American top hat that's collapsible and works as a frisbee.
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Everybody tries to score a great goal, and I am lucky I have netted a few.
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Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.
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Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
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The thirsty earth soaks up the rain,And drinks, and gapes for drink again;The plants suck in the earth, and areWith constant drinking fresh and fair.
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A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
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Whole poems are made out of many single poems we call words.. .I am trying to recover a part of the poet's work which has been lost. Our first poets were the namers, not the rhymers.
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I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.
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Nuremberg taught me that creating a world of tolerance and compassion would be a long and arduous task. And I also learned that if we did not devote ourselves to developing effective world law, the same cruel mentality that made the Holocaust possible might one day destroy the entire human race.
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I think people have a strong desire to push me and others into some sort of political box that they can wrap their minds around.
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You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.
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I have a Ford Taurus, and I don't care who knows it.
