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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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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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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Here come the planes. They're American planes. Made in America. Smoking or non-smoking?
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People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, "God, no, I'm completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright."
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I would try to be super-assertive in meetings and, you know, pound my hand off the table, and it never ended well. People would say, 'What are you beating the table for?' It's not natural for me.
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I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.
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Most of my life's information is public. I got a text one day from a hacker who texted me all of my credit card information.
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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.
