David Maraniss Quotes
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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
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I believe in the will. I believe in discipline. I believe in the organization. I believe in the rigor that gives us work. I believe in love as an engine of all things. I believe in the light. I believe in God. I believe in kindness.
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All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
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I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
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There are a lot of gay people in fashion, but it's not as if every gay person is a great creator.
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You do your bit and then you hope for the best and you think, oh I hope there's an audience at the end of the day.
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More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
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Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.
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I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.
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It's a crazy world, stardom. I don't even think of myself as a star. I just like to go to work.
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You, your employer and your plan's investment managers fail to follow even the most basic rules of investing. You overtrade, chase performance, do not think long term. All of you - All Of You - have done a horrible job managing your retirement plans.
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I had three goals and all of them were met.
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I can't really say why everyone loves Bob Wills' music, but I have yet to meet a person who didn't like it.
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I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child.
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I know what it means to do a job... I worked in a factory. I respect people in the service industry. What irritates me more is when people aren't respectful. There's a lot of nonsense behavior, especially in a place like Hollywood. The money, the power, they create little monsters.
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That's the main thing that attracts me - characters who have big journeys. I like playing those people.
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My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.
