Debra Granik Quotes

It's been a pleasure to see female comedians be prominent and flourish - like Kate McKinnon's Rudy Giuliani impressions, which are uncanny in their precision.

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• I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.

  

  Taylor Cole
  • World
  • Good
  • Travel

• I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Best

• It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Change
  • Me
  • Grief

• I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Work
  • Force
  • Directors

• Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Work
  • Music
  • Literature

• Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • People
  • Life
  • Hell

• There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Independence

• Syria is important because it lies at the heart of a region critical to U.S. security, a region that is home to friends and partners and one of our closest allies. It is important because the Syrian regime possesses stores of chemical weapons that they have recently used on a large scale and that we cannot allow to fall into terrorists' hands.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Important
  • Heart
  • Home

• If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Gun
  • Background
  • Desk

• The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Time
  • Long
  • Daily

• I'm always the interrogator. When I was an actor in rep, I always played sinister parts. The directors always said, 'If there's a nasty man about, cast Harold Pinter.'

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Man
  • Always
  • Said

• When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Horror
  • Making
  • Sounds

• In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don't.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Think
  • Know
  • Attention

• True friends stab you in the front.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Friends
  • True
  • Front

• I'm a country girl at heart.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Country
  • Heart
  • Girl

• We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Time
  • War
  • Past

• When people laugh at me, they are not laughing in the way that they normally would at a comedian. They are laughing with relief, because the truth has been spoken, and political correctness has not strangled this particular gigastar.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Truth
  • Political

• As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Good
  • Mean
  • Danger

• A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.

  

  Aristotle
  • Goal
  • Motivated
  • Good Habit

• I just want to make good music, and as long as I'm happy with it, the charting isn't that important to me. Although, the best feeling is having a song you're very happy with and also having it at Number One!

  

  Astrid S
  • Good
  • Music
  • Important

• I never really worked with Chris Farley, I hung out with him, but I had plans, I had big plans, movies, and I was in no hurry.

  

  Andy Dick

• If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Willingly
  • Joyfully

• It's been a pleasure to see female comedians be prominent and flourish - like Kate McKinnon's Rudy Giuliani impressions, which are uncanny in their precision.

  

  Debra Granik