David Grann Quotes
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I must've been a bird in some previous lifetime. I feel like I'm called to flying - the convenience and the beauty of it. That feeling of soaring would be empowering.
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Our players are mad, but it's good mad.
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I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is 'The Shining.' I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.
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These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.
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Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.
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I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.
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I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.
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If I don't play well, then it's not the end of the world, because we all learn in tennis that there's always next week.
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I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.
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If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.
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I'm definitely not satisfied about my career. I don't know how you can be, it's the very nature of things.
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Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
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The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.
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You can't generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men.
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'3 Idiots' was remade in various languages down south, but it wasn't successful anywhere because the magic was created by Aamir Khan and Rajkumar Hirani.
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I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder.
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I hate that stupid old pickup truckYou never let me drive.You're a redneck heartbreakWho's really bad at lying.So watch me strike a matchOn all my wasted time.As far as I'm concerned you'reJust another picture to burn.
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Their support was not needed, therefore they were not courted.
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There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.
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By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don't need to wait for our grandchildren's questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.
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I'm quite repulsed by the diva type.
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All that Shakespeare says of the king, yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself.
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I always write well in New York.
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I'm not a post-modernist. Especially when I do crime stories.
