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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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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I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
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We only get together when there's a good reason. Like, last summer, we didn't really intend to go out, but we thought the B-52's tour was a good opportunity.
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I've done TV and I've done film, and I'm not snobby about it. It's about the project.
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Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.
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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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I was offered the Gene Hackman role in 'The Poseidon Adventure' four times, and I turned it down four times. I didn't want to do that movie. I called it the upside down boat.
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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.
