Debra Granik Quotes

I'm from the East Coast, and so therefore, the Pacific Northwest forest is very exotic land to me.

Debra Granik

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• Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood and smiting the firstborn, give me a pass. And tell me when it's over.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • God
  • Perfect
  • Idea

• Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Ability
  • Over
  • Disability

• Pave your own path and be fearless.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Path
  • Own
  • Fearless

• I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • World
  • Woman
  • Gold

• Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Die
  • Sense

• We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Freedom
  • Need
  • Speech

• Trends come and go, and style evolves. It's important to have pieces of jewelry that are timeless and look chic despite ever-changing fashions.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Important
  • Style
  • Jewelry

• Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Poetry
  • Actor
  • Writer

• I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.

  

  Karen Mills
  • President
  • Potential
  • saw

• Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Chinese

• People like to talk about their hometowns and their travels, and the more places you've been, the more likely you'll be able to make a connection that can bring new business leads or career opportunities.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Business
  • Career

• Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Music
  • School
  • Kids

• I embrace everything about Ally... I don't particularly see her as a whiner. One week she's tough, the next she's really weak. I love that. She's human.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Human
  • Really
  • Tough

• At my house, it's an, 'If dad says it, you can say it' kind of deal, so a lot of my slang words come off very childish at this point in my career.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Career
  • House
  • Words

• It just blows me away that I am on, I don't know what generation of fans.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Fans
  • Generation
  • Blows

• Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Recruiting is the one thing I hate. I won't do it unless my coaches tell me I've just got to. The whole process is kind of undignified for me and the young man.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Hate

• Here once, through an alley Titanic,Of cypress, I roamed with my Soul - Of cypress, with Psyche, my Soul.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Soul
  • Titanic

• Executives need ample flexibility to respond to the market. That means both reducing costs and increasing innovation.

  

  Mark V. Hurd
  • Innovation

• And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Dream
  • You
  • Dare

• I came out to my parents as gay, and then I realized, you know, four or five years later, that I wasn't really happy, no relationships were working, and there was something missing in my life, and you know, I was doing drag, performing and stuff, and I realized through that arc that I was much happier doing that.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Parents

• Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Paper
  • Cracks

• Every difference in men's concepts should be regarded as reflecting an objective contradiction. Objective contradictions are reflected in subjective thinking, and this process constitutes the contradictory movement of concepts, pushes forward the development of thought, and ceaselessly solves problems in man's thinking.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Men
  • Thinking

• I'm from the East Coast, and so therefore, the Pacific Northwest forest is very exotic land to me.

  

  Debra Granik
  • Forest