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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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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It is not a disaster to discover that you are not the person you assumed you were. To the contrary, it is the beginning of the end of disaster. Experiment: How you feel if you were neither a success or failure in life? How would you feel if you were neither popular nor unwanted?
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It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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Beautiful things like beautiful sins belong to the rich.
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I've never needed government to hold my hand.
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Whenever we love or care for anything in our lives we're willing to respond with care and with compassion, but if something that we love or someone we love is threatened, we're also willing to respond with courage.
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For years, I was compared to Wookiees, especially after I did the 'Star Wars Holiday Special.' I have some photos of me with a few of the Wookiees on the set, and it's hard to tell us apart.
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I have a Ford Taurus, and I don't care who knows it.
