Debra Granik Quotes
When men's lives become extremely hard, women learn how to deal with them and assist them but also develop quiet systems of coping and managing.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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I dig all kinds of competition.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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I went to Iceland in 1861 and went over nearly every bit of the ground made famous by the adventures of Grettir.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I'd loved to wear jeans and t-shirts, but everybody was in the peace movement back then. And that was my ploy. I had to be careful not to say things like 'I like meat.' Actually I just wanted to drink beer and to screw.
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When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.
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I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
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The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West.
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I always have an item in mind that I want to wear; then, the next day, I put it on, and I love the 20-minute rush of frantically tearing clothes out of my wardrobe to go with it. And I honestly feel that's the best way to do it; there's no method to my fashion madness so to speak.
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I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.
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The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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Women's lives get more interesting the older they get. For some reason, when you hit 35, it turns into a grey area filmically. There's not much more until you start playing grannies. I'm not ready for that. I'm just naffed off that, between 35 and 50, there aren't better things about.
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When men's lives become extremely hard, women learn how to deal with them and assist them but also develop quiet systems of coping and managing.
