David Grann Quotes
I was not very good at newspaper reporting. I'm just not quick enough, and I always tend to tell things as stories.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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The thing people don't understand is that touring or travelling or whatever you do in my position means you go to all these cool places all over the world, but you see everything from a car window. You don't get to see much of the city or meet people at all.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
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I, for one, believe that partisanship should have nothing to do with the actions of Christ. You're either Christlike, or you're not.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.
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I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.
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We were really lucky and fortunate in the '70s because we got a group of not only good football players but good people... a group that wanted to be together and wanted to be the best.
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I'm a fly fisherman. I make flies. They're imitations of insects at different stages in their development.
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Games sometimes can reveal things. To watch someone in movement, unconscious movement, can be very stimulating and revealing, whether they win or not.
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I was not very good at newspaper reporting. I'm just not quick enough, and I always tend to tell things as stories.
