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Daniel Woodrell Quotes

There are people so alienated from the mainstream of American culture that it's like a parallel universe. They don't expect anything but trouble from the square world. Every time they interact with that world, they're given a ticket, sent to jail, drafted. It's never good. So they live by a separate value system.

Daniel Woodrell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: March 4, 1953

Topics

Good Live Time Culture Value People

I want to tell stories that are true and that resonate and move people, that highlight both the tremendous beauty and ugliness available in the human experience.

Beauty Experience People Want True

When I started, my teachers told me that I had to sing 'Mozart, Mozart, Mozart.' I said, 'No, I want to sing all the other stuff.' If you do not push yourself, you will stay the same. Maybe some singers are happy with that, but I have to move, I have to do something new always.

Yourself Happy Me Push You New

I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don't think I'm scrappy. I'm accepting.

Life Fight Think Battle Look

I just think it's so outrageous that fifteen years is the kind of minimum amount of time that any wrongfully convicted person spends in prison.

Time Prison Think Person Kind Years

I still think buying a home is the best investment any individual can make.

Home Best Think Investment Buying

There is a duality in recognising what an incredible disease it is - in terms of its origin, that it emerges out of a normal cell. It's a reminder of what a wonderful thing a normal cell is. In a very cold, scientific sense, I think a cancer cell is a kind of biological marvel.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Cold Think Kind Out Normal Cancer

I don't write plays for them to be turned into movies.

Movies Write Turned Them Plays

We're thrilled to expand our relationship, knowing that with the great team at the Music Group, Word, and Warner Bros., and with their proven record of excellence, we're looking ahead to an even brighter future for Curb.

Future Music Relationship Great Team

There've been moments where I just was tired of being in L.A. It was very difficult. I mean, you're constantly rejected. And that's OK, it's just really frustrating for me, because I try to read scripts and projects that have really great, deeper, meaningful qualities to them.

Great Tired Me Moments You Try

My animals are a really important part of my life.

Lisa Scottoline

Life My Life Important Animals Part

I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.

Singing Body Bad Back Out Alignment

It's the WWE; it's Vince McMahon's show. He lays out what he wants from you. It's not always going to be what I want.

You Want Always Out Going Show

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