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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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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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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The idea of the elite as composed of men and women having a finer moral character is an ideology of the elite.
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To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.
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When a new president comes in, a new president gets to clean house.
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Filming is repetition and many takes.
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Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.
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It's really hard for me to sing and play bass. Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.
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Crime stories are often sensationalized. They can provoke lower standards.
