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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When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'
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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 always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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I go out and speak to women's groups all the time, and I say, 'Guys, you gotta laugh and find the humor in things. You gotta pass it on.'
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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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Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.
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Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.
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Thursday night football should be illegal.
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When someone is working hard on something, that always connects with people, no matter what the differences in generations are.
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I think Congress can pass a bill when the American people start regaining trust in the administration to actually do their job and enforce the laws that are already on the books.
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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.
