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David Grann Quotes

Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts around.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Childhood Vacation Mom Growing Up Go

I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?

Melanie Griffith

God Smoking Smoke Quit Mean Like

Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

Work Politics You Done Need Ground

Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.

Great Time Eye Discovery He

David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.

Son Best Growing Up Friends Growing

I'm very thankful to directors and filmmakers who consider me in their films, and I hope I'm able to do justice to their films.

Amitabh Bachchan

Hope Thankful Justice Me Able Who

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Work Focus Simple Mountains Thinking

My relationship with God is what gives me a moral compass on what decisions to make and that stuff. I'm thankful that I have the people around me that I do, and they remind me each day of who I am and what I stand for.

God Relationship Thankful Day I Am

I'm a huge patriot, and what holds a lot of value for me is to be part of Team U.S.A.

Value Me Team Patriot Part Huge

You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in some respects is the epitome of frivolity.

Jonathan Miller

Life Yourself Think Doing You Find

I've got a lot of favorite golfers.

Got Favorite Golfers Lot

There's something innately funny and warm about being Jewish. I think it's something to be embraced and respected.

Funny Think Warm Jewish Something

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

Family Always Tell Meals Well Get

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