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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People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren't actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them.
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In the past, if I didn't work, I didn't eat but now I feel I can not work and I won't starve.
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Anytime you get this many light-skinned black people together at least half of them are going to be folks who act light-skinned.
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The human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. These are the things that make up its constitution and cause its pain and health. Health is primarily that state in which these constituent substances are in the correct proportion to each other, both in strength and quantity, and are well mixed.
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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.
