Debra Granik Quotes
You can't make movies without known names, and unknowns can't become known, because they can't get work.
Debra Granik
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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.
Paddy Considine
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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.
Frances Mayes
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
Vance McAllister
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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.
Abraham A. Ribicoff
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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?
Rainbow Rowell
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
Oscar Robertson
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
Fernando Alonso
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Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
Wayne Brady
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
Oscar Hijuelos
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
Daniel Bruhl
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
Natasha Richardson
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I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.
Gail Porter
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Fear of failure, it's the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.
Jerry West
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If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work as a director.
Andy Garcia
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Throughout my career as a lawyer, teacher and labor leader, books have remained my constant companion - stuffed into a briefcase, overflowing on my bedside table, stacked on my desk at work. Books have carried me to distant worlds, opened new doors and made me feel empathy, compassion, anger, fear, joy, acceptance - and everything in between.
Randi Weingarten
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As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen.
Marvin Hamlisch
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You can't make movies without known names, and unknowns can't become known, because they can't get work.
Debra Granik
