Debra Granik Quotes
I'm interested in the lives of Americans for whom the ways this culture has tried to define itself - that is, self-esteem defined by material wealth - they have nothing to do with that.
Debra Granik
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I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'
Garth Risk Hallberg
Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
Carl Hiaasen
Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
Yoko Ono
Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
Zaha Hadid
In the future, when people look back at the early days of Bitcoin, they'll say, 'It was so obvious that the ability to move money anywhere, instantly, at near-zero cost would be a huge success.
Adam Draper
Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.
Carly Fiorina
There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.
Lara St. John
I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.
Major Taylor
I do read all my work aloud as I'm working - this has made it a little hard to adjust to my husband's retirement. I can shout the shouty parts if I'm alone in the house, but of course, I feel a fool if someone is there to hear me.
Karen Joy Fowler
The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
Maggie Stiefvater
In emerging markets, slow growth in the advanced economies has shut down a traditional development path: export-led growth. As a result, emerging markets have had to rely once again on domestic demand. This is always a difficult task, given the temptation to over-stimulate.
Raghuram Rajan