David Grann Quotes
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
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It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.
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My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.
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I'm a pretty emotional person.
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Government should stand aside and let the business community prosper instead of imposing new regulations that will only stifle growth and limit access to capital.
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I am very happy and honored to be part of the Sony ATV family.
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Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.
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No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.
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But I'm an actor and I like to just keep working.
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We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.
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Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
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Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It's a story about a young woman who was given a precious opportunity to work her way up in the world. It's a story about resiliency, and sacrifice, and perseverance. And you're damn right it's a true story.
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Music is inarticulate poesy.
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I went to a Turkish hairdresser, and they burned the hair off my ears with a lit taper. They just put the burning candle near your ears and you hear the hair being burned away. And the smell - urggh!
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For mass struggles, nonviolence is essential.
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Work with good directors. Without them your play is doomed. At the time of my first play, I thought a good director was someone who liked my play. I was rudely awakened from that fantasy when he directed it as if he loathed it. . . . Work with good actors. A good actor hears the way you (and no one else) write. A good actor makes rewrites easy. A good actor tells you things about your play you didn't know.
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Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
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I don't want to just traffic in sensationalism or in mere blood.
