Debra Granik Quotes
I feel like reality TV has thrown a difficult wrench in the system - on the programming and making side, and on the curating side - which is that we now have a higher threshold for the salacious. We have a higher threshold, unprecedented, for fast, cheap, and out of control.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
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Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.
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The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
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For 'A Little Night Music,' I did try to get little bit more beefed up for that because I thought that would help me carry myself around the stage in that character.
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There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.
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Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
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I was lucky enough to go to an all-boys prep school in upstate New York that had a film program, so we had access to 16mm Bolex cameras, Nagra sound recorders, Arriflex cameras. We even had an Oxberry animation stand!
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I have always been very calm on the outside. I'm not too stressed now just because I'm in formula one. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have to do the maximum and I cannot ask any more from myself.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
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To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.
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Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.
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I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.
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If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they are necessarily better but because they contain precisely those truths of which our own age is neglectful.
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So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.
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I feel like reality TV has thrown a difficult wrench in the system - on the programming and making side, and on the curating side - which is that we now have a higher threshold for the salacious. We have a higher threshold, unprecedented, for fast, cheap, and out of control.
