Debra Granik Quotes
I will always face the conundrum that the subjects I'm attracted to aren't essentially commercial.
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
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I still find it strange, I suppose, when I say to someone, 'Can you just pass me my leg?' But I don't ever think about my disability.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I don't.
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If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek.
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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.
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I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to be writing out of a desperate act. It's like their writing is part of a survival kit. Those are the writers that I just absolutely cherish and carry with me everywhere I go.
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Having children is not for everyone, but I think it's a beautiful lesson in it not being all about me anymore. It's a relief, in a way. It's like, this is her story now, and I'm her mom. It's a nice shift.
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I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.
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I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.
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Age and numbers are a concept made up by man.
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Young people should travel, and they don't. You can't know if you don't go.
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I've been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwriting is concerned because love songs are so banal, and my experience with love is anything but that.
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If we don't like the Human Rights Council, then let's not fund it. We should pick and choose cafeteria style which groups we want to help.
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Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the method is one of the essential tools of the modern nuclear physicist.
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Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
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I decided I'd try my hand as a stand-up comedian, as I loved making people laugh, and appeared at the Latitude Festival, won the 2007 Laughing Horse New Act of the Year, and was a nominee for winner of the 2007 So You Think You're Funny competition.
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Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.
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Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.
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A lot of my role is advocacy, and as a scientist, you're an advocate, too, because you are coming up with a theory and having to convince your fellow scientists that you're right.
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I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road.
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I will always face the conundrum that the subjects I'm attracted to aren't essentially commercial.
