Daniel Woodrell Quotes
I've always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns.
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To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
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I don't know that there is a, quote, 'hip-hop lifestyle.' I think the music responds to complex social issues and injustices; I think it also raises complex social questions.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
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I want to remind people that we create films for the MMFF as gifts to them, not to see whose entry is better or which film earned more at the tills.
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Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair.
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I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I'm doing, they should do it. And what I want to do is find things that would represent a unique contribution to the world - the contribution that only I, and my portfolio of talents, can make happen. Those are my priorities in life.
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The best part of getting to do what you like is just doing it. That doesn't have to do with being famous or even successful or even powerful. I see people in life who are just doing a job and seem to be having a good time. And that's the trick.
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I've always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns.
