David Grann Quotes
The giant squid is the perfect embodiment of a sea monster: it is huge, it has tentacles, it has big eyes, and it is absolutely frightening-looking. But, most important, it is real. Unlike the Loch Ness monster, we know it's out there.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.
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Most bad behaviour comes from insecurity.
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The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.
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Wet sneakers and muddy clothes are prerequisites for understanding the water cycle.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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The giant squid is the perfect embodiment of a sea monster: it is huge, it has tentacles, it has big eyes, and it is absolutely frightening-looking. But, most important, it is real. Unlike the Loch Ness monster, we know it's out there.
