Debra Granik Quotes
Some people have these small, positive schemes for survival, a kind of strength that I am attracted to, maybe because I'm prone to the blues.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent confrontations. I write my scripts from an emotional point of view and direct so the audience can experience this adrenalin rush.
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Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad.
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The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10.
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The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that there are innocent people on death row. And if I put an innocent person to death, that's murder.
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Fake relationships and fake people coming up to me and all of a sudden wanting to be my friend.
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I have never killed anyone, but I have often read about some guy getting his ass taken out with great pleasure.
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No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards.
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Some people have these small, positive schemes for survival, a kind of strength that I am attracted to, maybe because I'm prone to the blues.
