David Grann Quotes
It's funny: I don't know if she babysat, but I spent time with Judy Blume when I was little.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.
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Social media has colonized what was once a sacred space occupied by emptiness: the space reserved for thought and creativity.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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I don't do nudes. I don't do semi-nudes. I don't do cigarette shots. It took me a long time in the business to realize I didn't have to do everything people told me I should if I wanted a career.
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'Good Life' was my gold-medal song and is what I sing when I need to get focused and keep calm. It also just makes me super happy, and I love jamming out.
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I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.
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Making movies is all about instinct.
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I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.
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It's funny: I don't know if she babysat, but I spent time with Judy Blume when I was little.
