Debra Granik Quotes
In documentary, mostly, people are going to say untoward things; people are going to have gnarly beliefs. People aren't perfect.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
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Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I will always be the way I was a couple years ago before anything happened. And that's to my parents' credit, my amazing parents who have been around me my whole life and raised me right. I'm very happy with what has happened so far.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around.
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Work backward from your goal.
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I keep wondering who defends Quebec identity: who defends sovereignty, the right of the people to express themselves freely.
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There used to be an old joke in role-playing circles-it isn’t funny these days-that there were only a thousand real people in the UK-everybody else was a non-player character. Now it’s pretty much the reverse.
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I knew that what I did visually could not be completely understood. I knew that certain aspects of the work need a long time to develop. You get the visual idea in two seconds, but this idea can be developed like like a theory. You can see later on if the theory was correct, followed, or completely abandoned. That's why the writing can advance what is done. This is more or less how I started to write: to be sure that people will not totally misunderstand what my goal was.
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In documentary, mostly, people are going to say untoward things; people are going to have gnarly beliefs. People aren't perfect.
