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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Silent is the ruined land. Man is brutal and the rain does not wash away the pain or rid the distant memory. It makes it glisten.
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We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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Kids still can be said to live in their own little world. Even if their parents are helicoptering around them, assigning play dates and so forth, I think they're still living in some sense of their own little perceptual worlds.
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With the word "Repent" He was beckoning to us as the Savior, offering us His love and salvation. But behind this word we can also see the grief of God that His children have turned away from Him.
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Humour is used in struggle and solving difficult things, and I relish that tradition.
