Daniel Woodrell Quotes
This happens to me all the time: I think I'm working on one thing, but this other thing, whether I want it to or not, keeps coming through.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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I sing all the time. But maybe nobody's hearing it, because I'm singing in my car or in my house or whatever. I don't need the roar of the crowd, and I don't need to hear cheers to feel validated.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties.
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I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.
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On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.
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The Joan Crawford that I've heard about in 'Mommie Dearest' is not the Joan Crawford I knew back when.
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A lot of Playmates look like Playmates, but I look so girl-next-door and wholesome.
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When there's an idiot driving crazily in front of you, that can wind the best of you up.
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I fundamentally believe in term limits, for Congress, presidents, and board members.
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This happens to me all the time: I think I'm working on one thing, but this other thing, whether I want it to or not, keeps coming through.
