Debra Granik Quotes

I will always face the conundrum that the subjects I'm attracted to aren't essentially commercial.

Debra Granik

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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.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Risk
  • Liberty

• 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.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Me
  • Strange
  • Disability

• People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.

  

  Gallant
  • People
  • Black
  • Artist

• 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.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Christian

• 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.

  

  Karl Rove
  • People
  • Party
  • Hand

• 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.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Prayer
  • Daily

• 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.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Best
  • Quality
  • Growth

• 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.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Survival

• 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.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Children
  • Beautiful
  • Nice

• I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Run
  • Truck
  • Quit

• 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.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Up
  • Live
  • Trying

• Age and numbers are a concept made up by man.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Age
  • Man

• Young people should travel, and they don't. You can't know if you don't go.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • People
  • Know
  • Travel

• 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.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Experience
  • Songs
  • Concerned

• 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.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Help
  • Style
  • Choose

• Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Motherhood

• I'm standing on the bridge; I'm waiting in the dark. I thought that you'd be here by now. There's nothing but the rain, no footsteps on the ground. I'm listening, but there's no sound. Isn't anyone trying to find me? Won't somebody come take me home?

  

  Avril Lavigne
  • Trying
  • Home
  • Dark

• I pleaded your cause, Sextus, having agreed to do so for two thousand sesterces How is it that you have sent me only a thousand? 'You said nothing,' you tell me, 'and this cause was lost through you.' You ought to give me so much the more, Sextus, as I had to blush for you.

  

  Lawyer
  • Lost

• I think, aesthetically, car design is so interesting - the dashboards, the steering wheels, and the beauty of the mechanics. I don't know how any of it works, I don't want to know, but it's inspirational.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Interesting
  • Car
  • Design

• Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Prayer
  • Achieve

• When you look at the results on an after-fee, after-tax basis over reasonably long periods of time, there's almost no chance that you end up beating the index fund.

  

  David F. Swensen
  • Chance
  • Results
  • Almost

• Sometimes I even tell my relatives and my friends that I get a lot of love from the fans, and I'm not sure if it's deserved.

  

  Diego Costa
  • Friends

• I always wonder about people's history and their lives, especially people that are a little bit more distant, who obviously have had some kind of a thing, and you know there's some reason why they're not able to connect. It's not because they don't want to. They don't have the ability.

  

  Annette Bening
  • People
  • Why
  • History

• I will always face the conundrum that the subjects I'm attracted to aren't essentially commercial.

  

  Debra Granik