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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I?m just trying to do a little more talking to the guys and assuring them I am with them regardless, mistakes or no mistakes. I feel like it is important to let your teammates know that they can make mistakes, because you are definitely gonna make them. We feel like we can make mistakes and live with them if they are aggressive mistakes. I just talk to my squad as much as I can and just try to be there for them because that is what they do for me.
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Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
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I do have a mouth - I will say. I speak up when I see things I don't care for.
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The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
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Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right also for this country. That our leaders, our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan.
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We are a country of laws. When you take that away, the consequences are enormous.
