Daniel Woodrell Quotes
There are people so alienated from the mainstream of American culture that it's like a parallel universe. They don't expect anything but trouble from the square world. Every time they interact with that world, they're given a ticket, sent to jail, drafted. It's never good. So they live by a separate value system.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for people who had nothing and no one. Given the choice, a person wanted to die at home in their bed, surrounded by friends and family.
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As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
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The more I travel around the world, the more I see people want the same thing - to be happy. We wouldn't be in a monetary system if we didn't have to work, so if my music can contribute to happiness, then that's my main responsibility.
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time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
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I have a lot of admiration for people willing to face the public, but I'd prefer not to.
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I've learned to be one of the hardheadedest cats in the world. I've learned that.
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There are people so alienated from the mainstream of American culture that it's like a parallel universe. They don't expect anything but trouble from the square world. Every time they interact with that world, they're given a ticket, sent to jail, drafted. It's never good. So they live by a separate value system.
