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You want the story to be about something, have some deeper meaning, but there is also an emotional, almost instinctual, element, which is, does this story seize some part of you and compel you to get to the bottom of it?
- David Grann
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I have lots of gaps in my education, and so I'm often picking up classic books that most people read years ago.
- David Grann
#Classic
#Education
#Often
#People
#Up
Base stealers are often considered their own breed: reckless, egocentric, even a touch mad.
- David Grann
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#Own
#Reckless
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Most of Gingrich's moderate positions are rooted in a realpolitik that transcends ideology.
- David Grann
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#Moderate
#Most
#Rooted
It took me a long time to be able to write for the 'New Yorker,' and for me, that has been the best job. I live a very conventional life, but reporting for the magazine has allowed me to do things I would never otherwise do, such as investigating a criminal conspiracy in Guatemala or trekking through the Amazon looking for a lost city.
- David Grann
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#City
#Life
#Long
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I don't hunt, I don't camp, and I get lost on my subway to work here in Times Square!
- David Grann
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#Times Square
#Work
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
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#Just Do It
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#Know
#People
You think of the rainforest as this incredibly abundant place of fauna and animals and flora. This great, rich wilderness. And yet it is such a biological battlefield in which everything is competing.
- David Grann
#Animals
#Everything
#Great
#Place
#Rich
My night stand is more like a geological structure: a bunch of books piled on the floor with its own strata.
- David Grann
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#More
#Night
#Own
#Stand
The public, the whites - not just in Oklahoma, but across the United States - were transfixed by the Osage wealth which belied images of Native Americans that could be traced back to the first brutal contact with whites.
- David Grann
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#Contact
#First
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#Wealth
I never want to make people upset, but sometimes we may. When I interview people, I try to make it clear that our obligation is to what we uncover and to telling that story and to presenting it fairly and making sure everyone has a say.
- David Grann
#Never
#People
#Sometimes
#Try
#Upset
It was a very circuitous path. It was not very linear - I floundered about for many years.
- David Grann
#About
#Linear
#Path
#Very
#Years
The giant squid is the perfect embodiment of a sea monster: it is huge, it has tentacles, it has big eyes, and it is absolutely frightening-looking. But, most important, it is real. Unlike the Loch Ness monster, we know it's out there.
- David Grann
#Eyes
#Important
#Perfect
#Real
#Sea
The Osage have this lovely phrase: 'Travelers in the Mist.' It was the term for part of an Osage clan that would take the lead whenever the tribe was venturing into unfamiliar realms. And, in a way, we are all travelers in the mist. The challenge is that, as writers, we sometimes want to ignore this murkiness, or we want to write around it.
- David Grann
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#Ignore
#Mist
#Sometimes
#Way
One of the things I believe strongly in is developing institutions - legal, press, bureaucracies, academies - that are rooted in the pursuit of impartial truth. That aren't simply just bent to partisan ends or are corrupted for the powerful or for other ulterior motives.
- David Grann
#Believe
#I Believe
#Legal
#Things
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