Debra Granik Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
Damon Albarn Blur -
There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
Gary Oldman -
In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
Yakov Smirnoff -
I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
Karen Salmansohn -
For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
Taylor Swift -
I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.
T. J. Miller
-
I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
Oscar Niemeyer -
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
D. H. Lawrence -
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Dale Carnegie -
If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
Baz Luhrmann -
My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
Kamala Harris -
The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
Sam Houston
-
'What can your kids teach you?' Well, I believe something different about kids. We don't own them, they have their own knowledge. From the start you have to make the choice to listen.
Faye Wattleton -
A bad system will beat a good person every time.
W. Edwards Deming -
It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
Pardis Sabeti -
Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette. I dress for men.
L'Wren Scott -
It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
W. H. Auden -
I'm very unorganized.
Taylor Momsen
-
The U.N. has been focusing on the global goals in terms of trying to fight and eradicate poverty, and I feel like education is at the root of it all.
Connie Britton -
When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.
Damien Rice -
Commerce is abusive. It's very hobbling to always be saying, 'Please let me put this out, this thing I've worked on for years.' It's like a nasty parent saying, 'No! Now go to your room.' As publishing companies got bigger, you felt even less significant.
Patti Davis -
I don't want people who are in poverty, in pain, or suffering, to suffer because it's for their own good and they can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I want to help them. I want us all to help them.
Penn Jillette -
It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat.
Peter Capaldi -
In Hollywood, only a female who's massively damaged is interesting.
Debra Granik