Daniel Woodrell
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LES FINKELSTEIN I was 9 when I shot my first turkey on our farm in Missouri. It was my dad, brother, grandfather and... PAUL MILLER WILSON MIZNER MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK I was born and bred to be a great flirt. CYBILL SHEPHERD MICHELLE WILLIAMS THEOPHILE GAUTIER DEBORAH SAMPSON REEM ACRA J. PAUL GETTY CHARLES OLSON My mom says I was born screaming. ELLE KING RAHUL DRAVID JACLYN SMITH My first team was the Vipers 10-and-under. My dad played baseball. My grandmother's uncle played pro... BRITTANY HIPPLE JASON ALEXANDER If St. Louis is 1A (as a sports town in Missouri), Springfield is 1B. MATT GIFFORD AARON NEVILLE I feel like we embarrassed the city of St. Louis. ISAAC BRUCE The last game I played in college was in the NIT against St. Mary's. That was the first time I h... STEPHEN CURRY TESS GERRITSEN I feel like it's me singing back to myself as a younger person and saying have confidence in being a... CORINNE BAILEY RAE AARON PAUL
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I've bumped into at least three people in town who all insist 'Winter's Bone' is abo... DANIEL WOODRELL I don't want to be callous about it, but we all seemed to get over the Oklahoma bombing pretty q... DANIEL WOODRELL I learned my values. It's better to be poor than to be beholden. Wealth is not the object of lif... DANIEL WOODRELL As a high-school drop-out, I knew I wanted to write, but I wasn't overly confident that I was go... DANIEL WOODRELL I had gone to enlist in the Navy, but they had a long waiting list and no need for high-school dropo... DANIEL WOODRELL I joined the Marines the week I turned 17, and that led to a few experiences that might qualify as a... DANIEL WOODRELL I don't think I can write a book as nihilistic as some of my early ones. They're so bleak. I... DANIEL WOODRELL In February of 1972, a snowstorm blew into Kansas City, and I decided to hitchhike to California. Th... DANIEL WOODRELL One of the interesting things about the Ozarks is you just about don't have street crime. It'... DANIEL WOODRELL I've always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river to... DANIEL WOODRELL The town of St. Charles near St. Louis was founded by a trapper named Blanchette. There is a section... DANIEL WOODRELL I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family... DANIEL WOODRELL This is how sudden things happened that haunted forever. DANIEL WOODRELL You got to be ready to die every day - then you got a chance. DANIEL WOODRELL Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered. DANIEL WOODRELL If you don't allow yourself to change from book to book - take chances - it turns into a dullish... DANIEL WOODRELL I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn't quite ... DANIEL WOODRELL I FELL DEEP down in there, until this bright light raised me from sleep. Coming out of a pit such as... DANIEL WOODRELL There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there. DANIEL WOODRELL You wake up in this here world, my sweet li'l mister, you got to wake up tough. You go out that fron... DANIEL WOODRELL There are people so alienated from the mainstream of American culture that it's like a parallel ... DANIEL WOODRELL I am well aware that the writers of New York, London, and Toronto are more readily noticed, though t... DANIEL WOODRELL I had bill collectors chasing me. We were skipping from town to town, not leaving forwarding address... DANIEL WOODRELL When poetry is on the money, 12 words can slay you. I admire that greatly. DANIEL WOODRELL I guess it's ridiculously romantic, but I wanted to be a full tilt, sink-or-swim writer. DANIEL WOODRELL Thump Milton loomed over Ree, a fabled man, his face a monument of Ozark stone, with juts and angles... DANIEL WOODRELL For a long time, I didn't think I wanted to live in the Ozarks or write about the region. It see... DANIEL WOODRELL I'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters. DANIEL WOODRELL Earned a bachelor's at 27, then an M.F.A. that is still completely unused and in mint condition,... DANIEL WOODRELL I didn't really expect to be coming to the Oscars. DANIEL WOODRELL The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished. DANIEL WOODRELL I like the idea of everybody knowing each other; you know why you're doing things. DANIEL WOODRELL I know people who have, until recently, lived with dirt floors. There are people who live way back o... DANIEL WOODRELL Most of my characters aren't hillbillies anyway. Let's just call them proletariat with a dis... DANIEL WOODRELL I was reading newspaper front pages from the 1930s, and I was taken aback. I'm not naive about A... DANIEL WOODRELL I always gravitate towards anything from Ireland. With Irish lit, I love the use of language, but al... DANIEL WOODRELL When I started to be a writer, I was not going to run the risk of boring you. DANIEL WOODRELL Your palms break sweat and you sit there, needy, while your work ethic and character are available f... DANIEL WOODRELL Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be... DANIEL BURNHAM DANIEL GOLEMAN A cook never knows if the dish he perfected for hours was described properly or if a guest even like... DANIEL HUMM DANIEL BOONE Even if you are vegetarian, you do want to have a stuffing for Thanksgiving. The stuffing is not so ... DANIEL HUMM Everyone comes to live in New York because they want to achieve something, and for that reason, ther... DANIEL HUMM I think New York is truly unique in its singular combination of the quality of both the talent it at... DANIEL HUMM I've been playing sports since I was five. For me, there's no happier moment than when I'... DANIEL HUMM You've got to listen to your guests. DANIEL HUMM Just as food is a craft, great service is, too. It can take years to perfect the technical aspects o... DANIEL HUMM If you are working with high quality products, you can elevate the flavors more by cooking it at a l... DANIEL HUMM I have fond memories from growing up in Switzerland and drinking a glass of warm milk with a spoonfu... DANIEL HUMM The perfect ham and cheese sandwich is all about focusing on quality ingredients and about simple te... DANIEL HUMM What people don't think about when they think about New York is this amazing farmland that grows... DANIEL HUMM I have fallen in love with granola, in life and at work. I exercise every morning, and then I have a... DANIEL HUMM I'm from Switzerland, so I grew up with great chocolate. DANIEL HUMM A cookbook is a moment in time because, otherwise, you look back at the end of the day, and all the ... DANIEL HUMM History has long had a wall up between the kitchen and the dining room. Front of house, back of hous... DANIEL HUMM Passion for what you do is essential to success in any profession. That passion naturally keeps you ... DANIEL HUMM My wife is from Chicago, and every time we go, I just love it. I love the restaurant scene, and peop... DANIEL HUMM I try to run so I can eat anything I want. I feel it's a luxury to be able to splurge on somethi... DANIEL HUMM I love New York, where I live - it's the best city in the world. Nowhere in the world do you hav... DANIEL HUMM At my restaurant, we made a dessert called 'milk and honey.' It's milk ice cream that lo... DANIEL HUMM We can use all the scientific tools, but it will never replace the palate or the talent of the chefs... DANIEL HUMM No tablecloths, silver cutlery, fine porcelain, sommeliers, or deep wine lists - that's fine. Bu... DANIEL HUMM People often think of New York as a city, a concrete jungle with soaring skyscrapers and yellow taxi... DANIEL HUMM Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight. DANIEL DREW SAMUEL DANIEL SAMUEL DANIEL SAMUEL DANIEL SAMUEL DANIEL SAMUEL DANIEL SAMUEL DANIEL SAMUEL DANIEL DANIEL RADCLIFFE DANIEL KAHNEMAN As I mature as a chef, I no longer aim to pack multiple techniques and ingredients into a single dis... DANIEL HUMM DANIEL KAHNEMAN DANIEL KAHNEMAN DANIEL BOONE DANIEL KAHNEMAN DANIEL WEBSTER DANIEL KAHNEMAN We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun... DANIEL JOHNS Whenever the debate moves on to hard numbers - our deficit with Europe, our surplus with the rest of... DANIEL HANNAN But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companie... DANIEL YERGIN But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a bu... DANIEL YERGIN DANIEL TAMMET Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is ... DANIEL KEYES DANIEL RADCLIFFE DANIEL RADCLIFFE DANIEL GOLEMAN You're a good man," Fang said. "You're the last good man in this whole town. All the good that could... DANIEL WALLACE Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to... DANIEL HANNAN The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its co... 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DANIEL GILBERT No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make o... DANIEL GILBERT If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already... DANIEL GILBERT The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of ... DANIEL GILBERT We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think... DANIEL GILBERT Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to... DANIEL GILBERT The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a l... DANIEL GILBERT I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful ... DANIEL GILBERT I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and... DANIEL GILBERT Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the wors... DANIEL GILBERT Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's ... DANIEL GILBERT The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and syste... DANIEL GILBERT The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is kno... DANIEL GILBERT I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Ch... DANIEL EVERETT It's wrong to try and convert tribal societies. What should the empirical evidence for religion ... DANIEL EVERETT As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it bec... DANIEL EVERETT Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some r... DANIEL EVERETT I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the ... DANIEL EVERETT Christians who believe in the Bible believe that it is their job to bring others the joy of salvatio... DANIEL EVERETT One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and... DANIEL EVERETT I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic tr... DANIEL EVERETT There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common... DANIEL EVERETT Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to hu... 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DANIEL ELLSBERG Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanis... DANIEL ELLSBERG Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vie... DANIEL ELLSBERG If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us. DANIEL ELLSBERG Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be beli... DANIEL ELLSBERG My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, an... DANIEL ELLSBERG We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right. DANIEL ELLSBERG There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year. DANIEL ELLSBERG There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millio... DANIEL ELLSBERG Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers tha... 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