Daniel Woodrell Quotes
I had gone to enlist in the Navy, but they had a long waiting list and no need for high-school dropouts.
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I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.
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Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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You feel it in there, pacing your heart sometimes, and it has what's called a defibrillator. Should I suffer that arhythmia, it's generally sudden death. And the paddles that are internal shock you back and restore your rhythm to its normal and natural state.
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
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If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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I was 11 years old when the Beatles broke up. I was a Lennon fanatic - I mean, I loved Paul too, but Lennon was the guy - and there was always this dream of the Beatles getting back together; there was always this hope.
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My grandfather talked about James Dean; they were both very much into method acting.
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I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.
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The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles and interests to check excesses and create a balance in our politics that would benefit 'we the people.' Gerrymandered districts and a hyped-up fight-night media offer a partial explanation of why we seem to have neither checks nor balances.
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That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.
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I had gone to enlist in the Navy, but they had a long waiting list and no need for high-school dropouts.
