David Grann Quotes
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I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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Novels are longer than life.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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The problem is that too often the only people who can act don’t want change. Power doesn’t so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.
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I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.
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To become successful and outstanding at something, we don't have to come up with something new; we need only find ways of doing it better.
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I live country songs every single day of my life, so thank goodness I decided that was my passion!
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Grade 9: I was too small for football, too shy for drama class, but I did have a passion for music. And so, with a mouth full of braces (and a glorious mullet), I accepted that the trombone would be a fantastic scholastic counterpart to my extracurricular loves: country music, and the guitar.
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We are a country of laws. When you take that away, the consequences are enormous.
