Daniel Woodrell Quotes
I was basically raised to look for chances to get even with several families for stuff that happened 30 or 40 years before I was born.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.
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I don't golf. I've never golfed. I will never golf.
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My job is to engage, entertain, work out my life, tell a certain truth.
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Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.
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I like a woman who takes care of herself – it says something about the way she'll care for me.
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It used to be that the black comic figure had to have this bravado and always showed strength.
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We were doing the dance routine and I dislocated my knee. I've been doing stunts for a long time and it's kind of weird that I'd dislocate my knee just dancing.
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It's like an athlete. He has a string of hot years, and then he fades into nothingness. The actor doesn't necessarily fade into nothingness. After his hot years, he fades into a different category.
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Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
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We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
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If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.
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At no time did I intend to, or do I believe that I did put forward false information to the American people.
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I'm not sure it's entirely a good thing... I've always loved the gutter.
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My one thing is respect. I don't care about anything else. You should respect everyone around you - the people who work for you, peers. Be classy.
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I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn't want to go into the saloon business: I wanted to get away from Kenosha. And once I left, never, ever did it cross my mind to go back. I went to college and thought I'd study law.
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Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the kitchen and said he did not know whether he would go down to the post office or not. And then I sprinkled some handkerchiefs to iron.
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Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.
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The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain indebtedness and duty toward it because I have walked this earth for thirty years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures — not made to please a certain taste in art, but to express a sincere human feeling.
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“You matter," she whispered to him. "You are important. And you are the single most magnificent man I have ever had the honor of meeting.
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I was basically raised to look for chances to get even with several families for stuff that happened 30 or 40 years before I was born.
