David Grann Quotes
I often feel that with a crime story, the moral standards have to be higher. You're deal with real victims and with real consequences.
Quotes to Explore
-
I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
-
I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
-
The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
-
I was a tomboy.
-
There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.
-
The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
-
Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
-
I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
-
Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
-
I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
-
Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
-
When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
-
If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
-
I don't consider myself a competition to anyone. There is ample space for everyone here. When there are directors who create characters for me, why should I feel bothered or insecure? When it comes to updating myself, I work very hard to relate to the emotions of characters I play.
-
R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.
-
Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.
-
Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.
-
'Mr Selfridge' is a lot more accessible than shows like 'Downton.' Everyone knows the store, but not everyone knows the story. Having this store as the backdrop with all of society working under one roof, I think it really captures people's imaginations.
-
The more clearly defined and keenly desired your goals, the more of your natural creativity will be released for goal attainment.
-
Make your choice, adventurous Stranger, Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had.
-
As long as God gives me strength to work and try to make things real for my children, I'm going to work for it - even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice.
-
It may be my rather puritanical upbringing at odds with my inborn laziness that makes me feel guilty at the end of the day, unless I am able to point at some achievement. But this need be no more impressive than cooking a meal or going for a long walk.
-
Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being
-
I often feel that with a crime story, the moral standards have to be higher. You're deal with real victims and with real consequences.
