Debra Granik Quotes
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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I have a charity called the Chain Of Hope, where we target children from poor areas where heart surgery is not available, and we offer our services.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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Money? I lost all taste for it.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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We all have a stake in ensuring that all students have the schools they deserve and that communities are leading this effort, not being left behind. To do that, we must challenge unchecked charter expansion and the forces driving it.
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As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.
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Politics won't allow for the truth.
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We want a money that some government mandarin can't just whisk into existence with a pen stroke.
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I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.
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My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.
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Pucci was always my favorite brand when I was in college. It has a similar DNA as my label, both in the sexy, uplifting point of view and in the use of color and surface pattern.
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I was deeply grieved and suddenly depleted by a draining weariness. This day had been a nightmare, and I had not yet been asleep.
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We start with strong characters and build the movie from there. That not to say we don't struggle with story - that's the most challenging part.
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Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.
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Humour is used in struggle and solving difficult things, and I relish that tradition.
