Debra Granik Quotes
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For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.
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Everything that I design I would wear myself.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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Our intent is to operate Time Warner as it operates today, with autonomy in its divisions, including the world-class creative talent and journalists that make Time Warner a leader in entertainment and news.
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I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.
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I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's why people are doing too many revivals, that's why there's a plethora of rock musicals. There's room for everything, but not room for too much of anything.
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The mentality we have in India is not very sporting.
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Seeing how easy it has been to use Twitter for good has exposed the double-edged sword of how easy it could be to co-opt.
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I hate when a movie just sort of ends and is so open-ended you feel like it wasn't finished. I appreciate leaving things up to the interpretation of the audience and letting them make decisions about where things will go in the future - but the director has to make a decision; otherwise it is sort of a cop-out.
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Women have a tendency not to give up realms once they take over new ones. We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem.
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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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You can do your job and be yourself and be comfortable all at the same time!
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Mostly for social media, Twitter or Instagram becomes so much more fun when you can be boastful and say whatever you want. You can be so full of yourself and ridiculous when you're a heel.
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'Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.'
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I had collages in my bedroom when I was a teenager.
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My current goal is to change the way we think about antitrust and anti-monopoly.
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Everyday life inspires me, the situations that we all find ourselves in at one time or another.
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The earth is not in the centre of the Sun's orbit nor at the centre of the universe, but in the centre of its companion elements, and united with them. And any one standing on the moon, when it and the sun are both beneath us, would see this our earth and the element of water upon it just as we see the moon, and the earth would light it as it lights us.
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I've been very engaged in Illinois and Chicago civic activities for a long time; mostly around building businesses and helping entrepreneurs grow companies, but also around education and education reform.
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I find it so hard to make films about my own region, but it could happen.
