Debra Granik Quotes

I'm interested in the lives of Americans for whom the ways this culture has tried to define itself - that is, self-esteem defined by material wealth - they have nothing to do with that.

Debra Granik

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Films that score very high with test audiences generally tend to not be so great. But, there's a lot of money involved in making movies, and it's a way for people to reassure themselves, who have spent money, and it's also a way to work out how to market a movie.

Andrew Dominik

WorkGreatMoneyPeopleMoviesTest

To be a member of something. To be a member of something helps get rid of that lonely feeling.

Stephen Henderson

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The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

Shirin Ebadi

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Courage is managing fear to accomplish what you want to accomplish. And it's a great demonstration of love. It's really what love is. It's finding areas in which other people are more important than you.

Rudy Giuliani

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Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

Mason Cooley

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Feminists are disappointed in each other a lot, a natural side effect of being involved in a movement, which naturally implies that progress toward the ultimate goal is the only measure of success and that setbacks are always disasters.

Michelle Dean

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A lot of jobs today are being automated; what happens when you extend that concept to very important areas of society like law enforcement? What happens if you start controlling the behavior of criminals or people in general with software-running machines? Those questions, they look like they're sci-fi but they're not.

Jose Padilha

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Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

Dennis Potter

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I've never been one that was on a diet, because I always ate well.

Donovan Bailey

DietNeverAlwaysBecauseWellBeen

Corporate engineers have looked at how women are with each other, borrowing the best tips from female neighborhood culture and then transporting them back into the bosom of capitalism. They've feminized capitalism.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

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Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now.

Alison Bechdel

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God continues to work miracles in my life.

Willie Aames

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