David Grann Quotes
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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I was a tomboy.
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I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.
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You keep learning all the time.
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If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
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Singing is a prayer to me.
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When I'm directing, I noticed I'm not using my subconscious at all. I'm literally using the whole front part of my brain all the time. When you walk on the set, every moment you have to be there because something's going on that requires attention.
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Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.
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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.
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You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.
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Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
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My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.
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There's no possible way you can get what you want.
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One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot.
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The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.
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I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.
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In the monastery of your heart, you have a temple where all Buddhas unite.
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I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'
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Coming up as a kid, I played middle linebacker and I was very bow-legged, and I wanted to be like the legendary Dick Butkus.
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Journalists are often portrayed as cynical. I often think it's the opposite.
