David Grann Quotes
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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I started dancing when I was about 15 or 16 in my high school drama club, and then I liked it so much that they offered dual enrollment classes. So my senior year, I ended up taking college dance courses while I was in high school because I had good grades.
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Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.
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Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
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And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.
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There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
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It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification.
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I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
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Always do what you are afraid to do.
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Some things are very low profile, but if they excite me creatively, I accept them. Sometimes there are high-profile projects, and you have to do it. We all have human limitations. It is a painful decision to turn things down. Even accepting 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a decision that I had to sacrifice another project.
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Jack Abramoff is the world's best lobbyist - for the Federal Penitentiary System.
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I just want to learn even more about my culture and about the Algonquin culture because I fell in love with Pocahontas and the Algonquin tribe.
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I'm not really into rap.
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I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me.
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Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.
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I think they have not learned over the years that the more you talk, the more I will want to beat you.
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From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed.
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I think the main struggle for women in Hollywood and women in my position is to fight for true representation in the media and accurate representation of our many diverse qualities in stories.
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Crime stories are often sensationalized. They can provoke lower standards.
