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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A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is.
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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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If you have music that sounds like what you cover, people won't be able to differentiate who you are.
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Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
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If you're a person of faith that is conservative, that's pro-life, as I am, that believes strongly in traditional family values, as I do... then how we talk about them matters.
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All Christians have the Spirit of Christ, but not all Christians have the mind of Christ.
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We know who is out there as far as available quarterbacks, but in reality, no one would be more prepared or capable as a No. 2 at this point than Dan. He got more snaps in the preseason than any of our quarterbacks and continues to get better.
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I'm not a post-modernist. Especially when I do crime stories.
