David Grann Quotes
I've done a lot of stories over the years, and sometimes there are larks, and they're fun, and you kind of move on.

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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.
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Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
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Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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Lupe Fiasco is kinda cool. I like him a lot.
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When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.
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I had been tracked from grades 1 through 12 in an accelerated program in the public school system in Memphis and had done well in math and science classes. When I was getting ready for college, my guidance counselors suggested I look into engineering.
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Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you've done to other people.
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I think it is important for someone like me to not run away from who I am but embrace it. LGBT people across the country need to know they have a friend in Congress.
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All of a sudden I'm in the major leagues and we're traveling from town to town. I see the other players dressing different every day. I've got only one suit and I keep wearing it over and over. I'm really embarrassed.
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I've done a lot of stories over the years, and sometimes there are larks, and they're fun, and you kind of move on.