David Grann Quotes
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.
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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.
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I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
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A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
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The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.
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I can understand why people would want to stay on the road because you create your own bubble. You almost don’t live in the real world. Just to have the things that are with you is fine.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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We all have these shades in our nature: it's a spectrum within all of us.
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Every actor wants to find a piece of work that's innovative and powerful and moving.
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I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.
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I am not, by nature, an explorer or an adventurer.
