David Grann Quotes
Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts around.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
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I don't get bothered by fans.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
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Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.
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When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.
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I'm not graceful.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.
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I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
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The first thing I ever saw Bradley Cooper in was 'Wedding Crashers.'
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.
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How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
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For years, I've been painting black men as a way to respond to the reality of the streets. I've asked black men to show up in my studio in the clothes that they want to be wearing. And often times, those clothes would be the same trappings people would see on television and find menacing.
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I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit in the wilderness in New Zealand. I stayed in a warden's hut two-and-a-half hours off the Routeburn Track through the fjords on the South Island. It was early winter, so there was no electricity or running water.
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I wouldn't let my children play football.
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Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts around.
