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David Grann Quotes

To be honest, I used to always procrastinate when I write. I mean, I love writing, but I hate it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Hate Writing Mean Write Always

I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school.

Teacher Dance School High School

I left the North when I was 21 to go to drama school in London, and I stayed there 12 years.

School Drama Go London Years Left

Everyone thinks I have a coffee plantation in Sierra Leone, but I have a cashew crop project. I wrote about a woman who owns a coffee plantation! When you are talking about a woman writer coming from a hot country, there's a complete assumption that she is writing about her own life.

Life Coffee Woman Writing Talking

I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man.

Stephen Sondheim

Man School New York Loved New Been

Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.

Today War More Take Happens Smaller

Everyone out here in Los Angeles is trying to do whatever to break into films. It is a tough industry to get into, kind of like pro wrestling in a lot of respects when you think about it.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Tough Think Trying You Los Angeles

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.

Robyn Hitchcock

Honor Nobody Build Worship Need

My mother is a tall woman - as is everyone in my family. At her prime, she stood 5 feet 9 inches, which is quite unusual for a woman born in 1922.

Family Mother Woman Feet Born She

I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.

Career Stage Up Star Being Film

I still have the first bottle opener I made on my MakerBot. Things you fabricate are things you care more about. I think there will always be people who go and buy crap at the dollar store. But I think it is cool when people craft things themselves.

People Cool Think Care You Go

Being small, cute is going to do nothing.

Sergio Marchionne

Cute Small Nothing Being Going

It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.

Humor People Sense Of Humor Bad Take

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