Debra Granik Quotes
I swing with a lot of torque from non-fiction to fiction, and I really like that place in between.
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We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
Jack Williamson
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I was in a mountain biking accident and broke my sternum about three months before my unit was supposed to deploy to Iraq, and it's such a close-knit community that the idea of not getting to go is hugely jarring, so I tried to get put back in training and wound up injuring it worse.
Adam Driver
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Conservatives were sure that if you eliminated welfare for single moms, it would eliminate - or at lease greatly reduce - single motherhood. So in 1996 we had welfare reform. Did not change the trend in the least. Soon half of all babies will be born out of wedlock.
Gail Collins
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I do not need any cheerleaders at my moot court. And I cannot imagine walking into that Court without the preparation of a few vicious moot courts; it is critical to the development of my thinking.
Patricia Millett
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I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, and I was so passionate. I just loved acting so much that I decided to switch majors and pursue acting.
Fiona Gubelmann
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We have so many rich people in Switzerland. They should take more responsibility for the general public. There is almost no tradition of philanthropy here anymore, unlike in the U.S.
Hansjorg Wyss
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God forbid that women have fantasies.
E. L. James
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We have to look to the well-being of the Lebanese citizens and create prosperity in the country, and you can't create prosperity without stability.
Najib Mikati
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I'm still not used to the idea of being the youngest circumnavigator.
Laura Dekker
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California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
Gavin Newsom
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Amazon has historically been a bully, and I don't shop there. But I love Goodreads. For the record.
Edan Lepucki
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Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they're full of muscle. 'Copacabana' sounds like it could have been released yesterday.
Barry Manilow
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Nationalism and anti-nationalism is a matter of perception. You cannot mandate who is a nationalist and what is not.
Kapil Sibal
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I never have written a movie, but there are some bad movies out there. I can make one. I definitely want to get into that because that's how you, at my level, would get a lead in a movie - by writing a low budget thing for myself. So I gotta get to it.
Hannibal Buress
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We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.
Victoria Legrand Beach House
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I'm in awe of any Olympic champion, for sure.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
Kailash Satyarthi
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And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
Edmund Spenser
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I don't think I'm repeating anything I've done before, but sometimes I lose track.
Bill Pullman
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I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century.
Ricky Jay
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Leveraging cloud, mobility, you process things in a different way. For example, in insurance, you can access more claims through cloud, which makes a big difference in emerging markets, where the populations are large.
Pierre Nanterme
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Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.
Honore de Balzac
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People see me on the street, and they point to me, and they're like, 'Hey! All right, all right, all right!'
Kevin Hart
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I swing with a lot of torque from non-fiction to fiction, and I really like that place in between.
Debra Granik