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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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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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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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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I don't put people down. I build people up. That's how I always wanna be looked at.
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For each human being there is an optimum ratio between change and stasis. Too little change, he grows bored. Too little stability, he panics and loses his ability to adapt.
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We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.
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The first comic book I ever bought, I was in third grade. It was 'Avengers,' I think, #240. I grew up in Kansas City. And I walked into a 7-11. I had seen, like, 'The Hulk' TV series. I knew about comic book heroes. I knew about it, but I hadn't actually had a physical comic in my hands until that time. And it was a big deal for me.
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Now I find seriousness to be rather ridiculous.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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Sometimes I struggle with being American.
