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.
Quotes to Explore
-
It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
-
I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
-
What really matters is what's on the inside.
-
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.
-
My father has been my role model. And I always looked up to him - be it his management philosophy or his approach towards life.
-
I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
-
I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
-
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.
-
Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
-
There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
-
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.
-
Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
-
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.
-
Touring is really about being on edge the whole time - you're like a racing horse: you've just got to be on. You've got to pull it together.
-
I suppose the cult of the strong woman character on TV has probably been misinterpreted in so many different ways, meaning that a woman can't be emotionally complicated or want things or can't be weak in moments.
-
That's how I make work. Along the way, I take notes, I read about history and popular culture. Sometimes I act out things in the studio. I go back to my mother's hair salon so I can hear three voices going all at once. I pull inspiration from everything.
-
Barack Obama is not a man of The Gut, and it is driving official Washington crazy. This is a good thing, because resisting The Gut is what the Constitution is all about, especially in its war powers, which this president is conspicuously contemplative about exercising, at least in every context except launching drones.
-
Those are the ladies sitting in church. And in the same way that they might feel a joy and release on Sunday, they are still going to work on Monday. And that's who I was listening to during this process. And if at the end of my presidency they feel like I did a pretty good job, then I'll feel pretty good.
-
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.
