Daniel Woodrell Quotes
Most of my characters aren't hillbillies anyway. Let's just call them proletariat with a disposition towards criminal activity.
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I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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I am basically a citizen of the modern world, as we all are, praise the Lord and damn us all to hell.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.
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Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.
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It needs to be said and heard: it's OK to be who you are.
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If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream.
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I don't program or code or anything like that.
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It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.
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I don't think anyone would say that the women on the United States national team are not great role models and ambassadors. Everywhere we go, we connect with fans, sign autographs, and represent our sport and federation with class.
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Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.
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He reduced everything to politics; he was also unalterably of the Left. His line may have been unpopular or unfashionable, but he followed it unhesitatingly; in fact it was an obsession. He could not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.
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The United States government does not authorise or condone torture of detainees. Torture, and conspiracy to commit torture, are crimes under US law, wherever they may occur in the world.
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It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
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As long as I ride motorcycles, which God willing is another 50 years, I'll always have Alvarez in my heart. I'm hoping for 10 seasons of Sons of Anarchy.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.
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Pain is the touchstone of all growth
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Most of my characters aren't hillbillies anyway. Let's just call them proletariat with a disposition towards criminal activity.
