Debra Granik Quotes
Time's up on cheesy, lesser, boring roles for females in the stories that we try to tell.

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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
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We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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In the case of 'The Deep,' because of the people involved, the talent and the real lives of people who died, I wanted to make the most honest film I could. And sometimes that's the best way to go: Just make the best version of the film you can.
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The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
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Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
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It's not the moment yet for me to enjoy my time as an actor, and as the time goes by, I feel that I need to push myself harder to pay back for all the good fortune that I have received.
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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
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There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.
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We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.
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Thoroughly read all your contracts. I really mean thoroughly.
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You can't look forward and backward at the same time.
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I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.
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I would hope that, for me, regardless of what happens in my career in the future, I always want to maintain a level of humility. I think it's so important to not lose yourself and to just understand that you're a conduit.
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It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backwards through the ragged veil hanging from the arch.
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Time's up on cheesy, lesser, boring roles for females in the stories that we try to tell.