Debra Granik Quotes
There is a porous membrane between a documentary that doesn't use interviews and what you would call a neorealist hybrid film.

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Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.
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I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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I love acting. It's what I do, not what I am.
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Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.
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I do tell people when I'm walking down the street that they should really rethink their whole outfit.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?
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I am not an insecure actor, and this reflects in the films I have done. Yes, there was a phase when I was adamant on solo hero roles, but that is over now.
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When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.
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We've done a lot of research on the characteristics of our teachers who are the most successful. The most predictive trait is still past demonstrated achievement, and all selection research basically points to that.
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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
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I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.
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That's not my love; that's just your life.
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I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners- two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.
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He was different at first But then he won't understand Because he's never gonna know me If he doesn't want to just shake my hand
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I knew there was an old axe down cellar; that is all I knew.
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A leader who is self-aware enough to know that he or she is not adept at everything is one who has taken the first step toward being a great leader.
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Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.
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Look, I like to fantasize that there's more to reality than what we have here, and that's why, from a young age, I just loved Philip K. Dick's books.
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There is a porous membrane between a documentary that doesn't use interviews and what you would call a neorealist hybrid film.