Daniel Woodrell Quotes
I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion.
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It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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My father has been my role model. And I always looked up to him - be it his management philosophy or his approach towards life.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you've got to forgive and move on.
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Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But all over the world, wherever there are Christians, in one way or another Christmas is kept.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
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I don't watch my playbacks because I hate to see myself act.
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And everyone’s story would be different. Every triumph would have a different prize, every heart ache a different face.
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Some guys that know me from when I was a kid say "My son, oh he's just like your father." It's just a natural part of our lives. But, within the music industry and within the industry of the critiques of music, where it becomes "Ziggy's music is not as good as Bob's music," I don't understand. But I don't really pay much attention to that because I'm just expressing myself.
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As we began working toward the finale of 'Lost,' I knew there was no possible ending that was going to be universally loved, and I accepted that. We ended the story the way we wanted it to end, and we stand by it. On my Twitter feed, I still get ten to fifteen positive comments for every negative one.
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I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion.
