David Grann Quotes

Honestly, I had no idea what to do on Twitter when I started. I didn't follow it enough. Slowly, though, I started to realize what I'm okay at. Like, I'm just not particularly witty.

David Grann

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• First, I would find an object which I would think is suitable for my characters and stories, then write about it, and in the end, I ended up with a house full of thousands of objects.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Up
  • Think
  • House

• As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Success
  • Friend
  • Mountain

• Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Dad

• You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Earth
  • You
  • Cure

• When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Work
  • Women
  • Success

• It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Government
  • Struggle
  • Nickel

• Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Different
  • Words
  • Single

• There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Perspective
  • Cat

• I'm very wary of trust, you see.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Trust

• Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.

  

  Bill Viola
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Beginning

• I'm more athletic than people think.

  

  Chris Borland
  • People

• It makes a lot of sense to me that I would be a cartoon. I feel like a cartoon as a person. I really, really do.

  

  Jenny Slate

• When I first started doing these roasts in the mid '90s, they were a lost art, like jousting or calligraphy. But I feel like roasts help tame the room and let off steam... It's like it's all being handled by professionals.

  

  Jeff Ross
  • Art
  • Help
  • Lost

• The story of our species is one of overcoming existential risk through new forms of cooperation and innovation.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Risk
  • Innovation
  • Overcoming

• It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.

  

  Jeremy Paxman
  • People
  • Question

• It is an honor to be on the cover of this game because the World Cup is such a big thing around the world. My kids are really quite impressed so that's fun.

  

  Claudio Reyna
  • World
  • Kids
  • Fun

• You can be involved in media, and you can be involved in all the handbag hurling that goes along with it, and it's a different world.

  

  Kerry Stokes
  • World
  • Different

• I grew up wearing trousers and climbing trees.

  

  Vicky Krieps
  • Up

• I'm a good communicator, and I'm a good translator. I can talk to engineers; I can talk to people for whom technology is not remotely interesting or even maybe scary - things like that.

  

  Mitchell Baker
  • Interesting
  • Engineers
  • Communicator

• My favorite part of the whole filmmaking process is working with a fantastic cinematographer, a fantastic actor or actors, and then just creating emotions and stories. I get so excited by that. That's the part I'm utterly addicted to.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Emotions
  • Filmmaking

• I've got an extra-specific story about Dr. Dre. I saw him when I was 9 years old in Compton - him and Tupac. They were shooting the second 'California Love' video. My pops had seen him and ran back to the house and got me, put me on his neck, and we stood there watching Dre and Pac in a Bentley.

  

  Kendrick Lamar
  • House
  • California

• My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Writing
  • School
  • Money

• Honestly, I had no idea what to do on Twitter when I started. I didn't follow it enough. Slowly, though, I started to realize what I'm okay at. Like, I'm just not particularly witty.

  

  David Grann
  • Witty