Debra Granik Quotes
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When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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In science, we take large numbers of disparate facts and reduce them to see patterns. We use the patterns to reduce the amount of information. It's the reason we name species and genera and families in biology. It's also the reason we have names for certain types of geological features and so on in other fields.
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
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The American dream is about freedom.
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I struggle immensely with celebrities of all kinds. I get clammy hands and turn a little purple.
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The president [Barack Obama] understands that the country's very concerned about [terrorism] issue. And I think what you're going to hear from him is a discussion about what government's doing to ensure all of our highest priority, the protection of the American people.
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Sometimes I struggle with being American.
