David Grann Quotes
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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You think about taking audiences on a journey.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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I love cycling.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!
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My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
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We actors have it pretty easy and pretty hard. Easy 'cause we have a meal provided to us every 6 hours every day and craft services. The hard part is staying fit under those circumstances.
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Some people may get in to the building without the proper passes and things, but I think that's the price you pay for being an open place for people to come.
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I joke and I say, 'I need to go back to make a supernatural horror film just to so that I can make a movie that's grounded again.'
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'Community' gets to be the indie movie, while a 'Modern Family' gets to be the big blockbuster release. They service that big massive audience, and we service a smaller audience. But we get a lot of creative freedom.
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I love to write about Nabokov and also to think about him. I love his attitude that he is incomparable, his lofty judgments and general scorn of other writers - not all of them, of course.
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I don't normally do pure historical work.
