Debra Granik Quotes
I swing with a lot of torque from non-fiction to fiction, and I really like that place in between.Debra Granik
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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 -
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 -
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 -
God forbid that women have fantasies.
E. L. James -
I'm still not used to the idea of being the youngest circumnavigator.
Laura Dekker -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I'm in awe of any Olympic champion, for sure.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
Kailash Satyarthi -
And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
Edmund Spenser
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My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.
Abraham Verghese -
Interviewing Rei Kawakubo in Tokyo and John Galliano in Paris, both for 'Pop' magazine, were huge for me, not just in learning about fashion and writing but about how little desire I had to be a critic/reporter/journalist/commentator so much as a kind of travel diarist.
Tavi Gevinson -
No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
Fidel Castro -
Whenever I look at a baby or children in general, I smile and just want to play with them.
Odeya Rush -
You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.
T Bone Burnett -
Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don't think I'm as sharp as I was when I was younger, but I'm definitely wiser and less likely to make gigantic blunders of an intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical type.
Flea Jane's Addiction
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Sensuality is the death of the soul.
Honore de Balzac -
None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.
Nicholas Sparks -
Why am I using a new putter? Because the last one didn't float too well.
Craig Stadler -
I got tired of books where the boy is a bit thick and the girl's very clever. Why does it have to such an opposition? Why can't they be like the girls and boys that I know personally, who are equally funny and equally cross? Who get things equally wrong and are equally brave? And make the same mistakes?
Patrick Ness -
You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.
Eugene H. Peterson -
I swing with a lot of torque from non-fiction to fiction, and I really like that place in between.
Debra Granik