Debra Granik Quotes

I'm reaching for emotion and drama, the drama of the everyday: what happens when you don't have shelter, food, and clothing. There are some stakes. If you're displaced or evicted, there's a suspense: How will you solve that?

Debra Granik

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FoodYouDramaEverydayEmotion

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

Stephen Malkmus

MeSpeakYouPersonalAlwaysSing

I gave birth to our daughter Coco in Pisa, and it was a wonderful time in all our lives.

Trudie Styler

DaughterTimeBirthWonderfulOur

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.

Lucian Freud

PaintingEndDuckYouSkinSide

At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture.

Jonathan Carroll

SomeoneFurnitureWhyBostonHead

My daddy had been a fiddler, and I heard a lot of fiddle music as a child. I had a ukulele and had played along with him.

Dickey Betts

MusicChildHimUkuleleAlongBeen

Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.

Anne Lamott

LightMeYearLongSummerGo

I am almost 30 so I am approaching this one as if it will be my last Olympic Games. I want to put out 110 percent to make sure that I am up at the top.

Asafa Powell

I AmWantGamesWillTopOut

Christianity and Judaism have gone through the process of enlightenment, making them creative and constructive elements in society.

Pim Fortuyn

CreativeSocietyEnlightenmentGone

When I was a kid, phone calls were a premium commodity; only the very coolest kids had a phone line of their own, and long-distance phone calls were made after eleven, when the rates went down, unless you were flamboyant with your spending. Then phone calls became as cheap as dirt and as constant as rain, and I was on the phone all the time.

Susan Orlean

TimeRainYouPhoneDownKid

From my perspective, I think the question of how we build a better future is an extremely important overarching question, and I think it's become obscured from us because we no longer think it's possible to have a meaningful conversation about the future.

Peter Thiel

FuturePerspectiveThinkBetter

Every time you think a negative thought, it's one step in the wrong direction, for me.

Sean Paul

TimeStepMeNegativeThinkThought

Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me.

Sean Penn

GovernmentMeLineSomewhereAlong

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