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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When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don't know about, and if I haven't done it, I'll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.
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The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.
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I wouldn't mind doing a soundtrack someday.
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When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.
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I love teaching creative writing, and I think I'm good at it, but in a different life, I could have been teaching elementary school.
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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.
