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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The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization.
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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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I think her Grandmother Hall gave her a great sense of family love, and reassurance. Her grandmother did love her, like her father, unconditionally. And despite the order and the discipline - and home at certain hours and out at certain hours and reading at certain hours - there was a surprising amount of freedom. Eleanor Roosevelt talks about how the happiest moments of her days were when she would take a book out of the library, which wasn't censored.
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Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.
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People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it.
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I'll be home for Christmas. You can count on me.
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My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.
