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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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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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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We've become so successful that it's become a machine: There's a lot of people relying on you. You've got 100 people out on the road and working for you. You want to stay at the top.
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What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.
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I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think this attitude verges on the immoral, like thinking that slavery is an unalterable facet of the human condition so why bother doing anything about it?
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There's no debt limit in the Constitution.
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Small businesses are the backbone of our economy.
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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.
