Debra Granik Quotes
I'm reaching for emotion and drama, the drama of the everyday: what happens when you don't have shelter, food, and clothing. There are some stakes. If you're displaced or evicted, there's a suspense: How will you solve that?
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I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
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There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.
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It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
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I want to have a long career.
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If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
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In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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I'd love to return to theater.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.
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I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
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It's very special having a new little girl.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.
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On many accounts, Cornwall may be regarded as one of the most interesting counties of England, whether we regard it for its coast scenery, its products, or its antiquities.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Because I'm stern and scolding [the characters] sometimes, I'm sure I'll get a ton of grief.
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I'm very happy. I was little scared because it's such a big bite.
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I am not sure if India is the right place to promote such music. I don't think there are still enough people who listen to English songs.
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I was 23 when I wrote 'Neighbors,' and I definitely look back at it now and cringe a little bit. I was trying to understand what drama was.
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I'm reaching for emotion and drama, the drama of the everyday: what happens when you don't have shelter, food, and clothing. There are some stakes. If you're displaced or evicted, there's a suspense: How will you solve that?
