Debra Granik Quotes
The time that it takes to make the feature is really contingent on the feature being sort of almost ready-made - so coming to a book is more ready-made. You at least have the story that someone sorted out.
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I am a Buddhist.
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Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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Kaepernick's protest has been very successful. I really appreciate the fact that he's been giving away money to organisations; he pledged to give away a million dollars, and he's been doing it.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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One has to understand that we have to become a higher personality which is the spirit, which is the truth, which is the enlightened attention, and which is the joy.
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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
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Nothing about economic growth in the United States over the course of the past 40, 50 years, during which time this has been continually happening, would indicate that we are being harmed in an overall sense by this.
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I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.
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I think every artist should follow their vision; their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for. That said though, I think also artists have, continuously good artists, have been good for their times.
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The time that it takes to make the feature is really contingent on the feature being sort of almost ready-made - so coming to a book is more ready-made. You at least have the story that someone sorted out.
