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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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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Good wine needs no bush,And perhaps products that people really want need nohard-sell or soft-sell TV push.Why not?Look at pot.
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Democracy is not enough. If the culture dies, the country dies.
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We firmly believe the future of television is online, and Hulu has recognized the value of quality long-form series.
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I don't like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight...I've always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.
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A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.
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I have a Ford Taurus, and I don't care who knows it.
