Debra Granik Quotes

Our necks are getting injured from looking down, and the movie screen gives you opportunity to look up, you know? It gives you an opportunity to possibly have a discussion with someone afterwards.

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• A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Important
  • Balance

• I can't take the theater side out of myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Myself
  • Theater
  • Take

• I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Up
  • Work
  • House

• About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Job
  • Game

• I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Play
  • Like
  • Story

• In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Believe
  • Food
  • Me

• When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Men
  • Attention
  • Simple

• Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • World
  • Rock
  • Judge

• Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Me
  • Something
  • Happen

• In Singapore, there is this life and locals and restaurants and then big casinos and an array of chefs, and even Miami is almost close to Vegas when it comes to an amazing presentation of chefs. But they don't have these massive hotels that have become their own culinary villages.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Life
  • Amazing
  • Vegas

• My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Balance
  • Theory
  • Key

• Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Home
  • Together
  • Boy

• I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • Family
  • High

• I'm always challenged by someone.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Always
  • Someone
  • Challenged

• Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • People
  • Believe
  • Enemy

• The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Man
  • More
  • Will

• In London, people can be so... well, it's not even a case of people being unkind or unfriendly. You just don't make any contact in London. You go from A to B with your eyes on the pavement.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • People
  • Eyes
  • London

• When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.

  

  Paul Walker
  • Guy
  • Cool

• Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

  

  George Carlin
  • Up
  • Soul
  • Die

• What are we blaming? Is this Vietnam? We made a movie, it didn't make much money. I'm gonna be really happy if somebody watches it in 10 years' time and really enjoys it.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Time
  • Money
  • Movie

• I think I ended up on 'People's '50 Most Beautiful People' list just because of eyeliner, which is kind of a bummer. But if you do find the right color, it will make your eyes pop.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • People
  • Up
  • Beautiful

• Gosh, for me, when I was 15 or 16 years old, I was just starting to understand ideas and film and things like that. And then, you go see a movie like 'The Matrix' that absolutely blows your mind. It's not just trying to entertain you, but it's also trying to explore something about human nature and ask some really deep questions.

  

  Brian J. Smith
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Movie

• Our necks are getting injured from looking down, and the movie screen gives you opportunity to look up, you know? It gives you an opportunity to possibly have a discussion with someone afterwards.

  

  Debra Granik
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  • Movie
  • Opportunity