Daniel Woodrell Quotes
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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
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I don't really yell at people.
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
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When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.
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I've been very lucky.
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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.
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Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
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The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different things.
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A victim of God may,Through learning adaption,Become a partner of God,A victim of God may,Through forethought and planning,Become a shaper of God.Or a victim of God may,Through shortsightedness and fear,Remain God’s victim,God’s plaything,God’s prey.
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport.
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When I pray, I feel close to my Father in Heaven, and I feel His guiding hand in my life. If there is one thing I have learned, it is this: God knows us, He loves us, and He is waiting to help us.
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My father was a salesman, and I always said I wouldn't be one.
