Debra Granik Quotes
In the U.K., working-class lives are depicted with the characters' humour, but in the U.S., people with difficulties are often depicted with pious or simply dreary lives.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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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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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'
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Fans will express themselves. We will always have the best security possible, as we always do. And I hope that Cleveland and the fans, you would hope that everybody keeps it to a certain level, because anything you do that crosses the line isn't going to look bad for anybody but the franchise and Cleveland.
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A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others' positions, no matter how odious.
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A good film to me is like lightning in a bottle.
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All the words are already there when you're singing onstage, it's fantastic. You can lose yourself in what you've created. You're controlling this freedom.
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I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.
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Everybody thinks because of my character that I'm this wild girl and I am, I'm an actor, and I have that in me - but I'm actually very calm and mellow.
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I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness.
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In the U.K., working-class lives are depicted with the characters' humour, but in the U.S., people with difficulties are often depicted with pious or simply dreary lives.
