Debra Granik Quotes

Films set in 90210 are ten a penny. But there's rarely room to make films about a different postal code, to show the lives of ordinary Americans who have to live with very limited material resources.

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• I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Community
  • New York

• I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Different
  • American
  • America

• I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • World
  • Sports
  • Soccer

• The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Risk
  • Jump
  • Greatest

• I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Good
  • Different
  • Real

• I remember walking into drugstores when I was younger and seeing all the hair color boxes on the shelves and just being so in awe. Having the control to dye your hair and change your look is such a part of self-expression.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Remember
  • Change
  • Control

• Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.

  

  Ian McKeever
  • Die
  • Learn
  • Everyone

• As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Today
  • Child
  • Walls

• I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Love
  • Result
  • Judged

• You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Happy
  • Team
  • Day

• That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Support
  • Government
  • Period

• I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Children
  • Walking

• My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Family
  • School
  • High

• All of my high school issues are resolved!

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• It's never crowded along the extra mile.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Never
  • Crowded
  • Mile

• We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Book
  • Community
  • Cricket

• I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Long
  • Learning

• I've been quite involved in a lot of U.N. operations over the years. I was a U.N. observer at the East Timor referendum in 2000. I've been very involved in that for a long time.

  

  Jeremy Corbyn
  • Time
  • Long

• ... letters freeze time for us, eternalizing shared experiences so we can go back and draw strength from them. Letters are like deposits in a secret bank that can be withdrawn when they are needed. And as we look back in love, we appreciate anew the thought and time that was taken to express those feelings.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Time
  • Taken
  • Feelings

• I don't know what it's like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy. I don't speak for such huge and diverse groups. What I've tried to do, what I've been fortunate to do, is to live my live and create my life as I've wanted to create it.

  

  Aimee Mullins
  • Life
  • Live

• Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Free
  • You
  • Retirement

• Films set in 90210 are ten a penny. But there's rarely room to make films about a different postal code, to show the lives of ordinary Americans who have to live with very limited material resources.

  

  Debra Granik
  • Different
  • Live