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David Grann Quotes

I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I didn't know how to be one - other than just do it. I didn't know what form it would take.

David Grann

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 10, 1967

Topics

People Early Know Just Do It Take

If you want to beat me up, feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself.

John Edwards

Myself Me Free Feel You Want

It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I, who were both Jewish, were going over to identify the remains of a man who was so anti-Semitic.

Michael Baden

Man Over Jewish Going Who Identify

I have often thought of doing a story with someone either as a human being or as a robot who, by a series of stages, changes into the other end of the spectrum. By the story's end, he'd be either totally robotic or totally human, the opposite of what he once was. And possibly... bring him back again.

Roger Zelazny

Story Thought End Someone Doing Him

Social media is so influential now.

Rita Ora

Social Media Media Now Social

I wouldn't say that my family is normal.

Lisa Lutz

Family Say Normal

I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.

Prince Philip

Wife Think Doing Moral More Same

Over the years I've learnt to live with two persons in my heart. One is Edson, who has fun with his friends and family; the other is the football player Pele. I didn't want the name. 'Pele' sounds like baby-talk in Portuguese.

Pele

Family Live Heart Football Fun Name

Cold and fire has a way of creeping into the tiniest crack in your courage and finding that coward.

Tim Kennedy

Courage Fire Cold Finding Way Crack

There's a conflict between what's in your mind and what's in your body.

Norman Lloyd

Mind Conflict Body Your Body Your

Something about being surrounded by water has a really calming effect on me.

Norbert Leo Butz

Water Me Surrounded Being Something

Making something and sending it out into the world and then people not only responding to it but adopting it for their own and making a separate thing for it, that's beautiful. It just shows you how much you can affect other people... the butterfly effect of everything you put out into the world.

Marketa Irglova

Beautiful Butterfly People World You

I just absolutely needed the theatre so desperately - it was my fate; it was where I was running towards. It was the place where I found peace and survival and all kinds of things.

Mark Rylance

Peace Theatre Fate Survival Place