Debra Granik Quotes
You can't just pill away injuries that go deep in someone. They don't just stop those feelings from existing.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my mother preached it to my three sisters and me back when we were at home: 'I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes, so that's all they know. Then, when they graduate from college, they have to figure out how to pay for them themselves.'
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.
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I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.
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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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One thing I am sure of is that I won't judge a dance reality show.
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I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
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To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.
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It's very important that Syria accepts the new reality and operates in a constructive, cooperative way with us and the United States.
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I don't like mixed colors that much, like plum color or deep, deep colors that are hard to define.
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People don't expect government to solve all their problems. But they sense, deep in their bones, that with just a slight change in priorities, we can make sure that every child in America has a decent shot at life, and that the doors of opportunity remain open to all. They know we can do better.
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The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to marry a guy who is going to take at least half the responsibility for the house and kids - and sometimes more than half.
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It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
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You can't just pill away injuries that go deep in someone. They don't just stop those feelings from existing.
