David Grann Quotes
The outlaw, in the American imagination, is a subject of romance - a 'good' bad man, he is typically a master of escape, a crack shot, a ladies' man.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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You cannot exploit the advantages of getting above the atmosphere unless you are able to get up there reasonably large-sized telescopes and unless you are able to keep these telescopes pointing at one region of the sky for long periods of time to a high degree of accuracy.
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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I may not be the biggest guy in the world or strongest guy in the world. I don't have those gifts. But I will take more punishment, and I'm willing to withstand more abuse.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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You can't be a real man if you don't look out for your kids. They need you.
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If you really want me to be safe, maybe it's time." "I'd just feel safer if you'd start sleeping in a coffin." Just then my door creaked open. Billy's expression turned to surprise. "Get out!" I said, hopping off the bed. "Uh...we are making up lyrics to a song." But that didn't keep Billy out. Instead he was totally interested. "You're writing a song? That's so cool. I want to hear it." "It goes, 'Safer in a coffin, and if your brother doesn't leave, he'll be in one too.
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The outlaw, in the American imagination, is a subject of romance - a 'good' bad man, he is typically a master of escape, a crack shot, a ladies' man.
