Jennifer Granholm Quotes
We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish.
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The only power you have is the word no.
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Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.
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The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'
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The underdog winning is the romantic position.
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I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
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My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.
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I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.
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I'll work as long as I can. I'm happy with my life.
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I'm very simplistic. I like jewelry that is small, that is a statement piece but with a delicate statement.
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We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish.
