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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If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.
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To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
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I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner.
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As I've gotten older and I've watched people in productions, I go to the theater when I go back to London and see friends in Broadway, I think maybe there might come a time here to get back up there and prove oneself. It's just an itch; it's a nagging itch to go back there.
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I can't say I was much of a gamer growing up or that I am now, but I'm certainly part of that culture or it's part of, you know, the sort of time that I grew up in.
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I'm not a post-modernist. Especially when I do crime stories.
