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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My parents were very protective of me and my brother, so they never talked to us about the situation in our country.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.
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I had a little teddy bear called Gordon the gopher. I took him to bed with me, he'd come to school with me cos he was my favourite.
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That file full of letters meant I met with a Special Needs teacher in the hallway to get something called Individualized Attention, and let me tell you, working in the hallway with a teacher is like being the street person of a school. People pass you by, and they act like they don't see you, but three steps away they've got a whole story in their heads about why you're out there instead of in the nice cozy classroom where you belong, Stupid? Unlucky? Unloved?
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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.
