Debra Granik Quotes
You can't make movies without known names, and unknowns can't become known, because they can't get work.
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All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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There is no one true church.
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There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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I'm going to keep going until I succeed — or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years.
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TV is the best. I wish that's how life was.
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When a man sits in our jails for a number of years, and around him friends and family become angry, that is how we create terrorists.
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I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.
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You have tremendous gifts to give; God sent them with you when you came to this earth. And while you might forget them, or doubt they exist, God does not forget and He will show them to you. As soon as your gifts are dedicated to His work, they will blossom. Chains that might have held you back for years will dissolve. And you will feel free. You will learn that your spirit is bigger than your circumstances, as soon as you put your spirit first.
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You can't make movies without known names, and unknowns can't become known, because they can't get work.
