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Debra Granik Quotes

It can't change anything immediately, but films can absolutely be catalysts for conversation.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: February 6, 1963

Topics

Work Finance Me Looking Frustration

I'm a mediator by training and inclination.

Training Mediator Inclination

Hair extensions and wigs are not the same thing. Wigs are for old ladies and drag queens. Extensions are for women who want longer hair. To be safe, never bring it up if you think a woman is wearing either. No good comes of it.

Jennifer Coolidge

Good Women Woman Hair Think You

So few people vote these days, and I think it's partly because they don't feel like the institution really means anything to them. If you want them to vote, give them opportunities to do something else other than vote, to help.

Jennifer Pahlka

People Opportunities Think Help You

I've done the thing where I stop being communicative, and I've been on the other side where the other person isn't communicating, and I become frustrated.

Stop Person Done Become Side Where

What drives me is winning championships.

Me Winning Championships Drives

My stand-up has always been very character-based. I'm not really the kind of person that's like, 'Hey, here's what's on my mind! Tip your waitress!' I would create the jokes based on the character I was playing. It was always a performance-based thing for me.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

Character Mind Me Create Person

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

Mikhail Bakunin

Freedom Lie Equality Political Want

The challenge of global warming should stimulate a whole raft of manifestly benign innovations - for conserving energy and generating it by 'clean' means (biofuels, innovative renewables, carbon sequestration, and nuclear fusion).

Challenge Energy Global Warming Clean

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

Father Mother Home Daughter Brother

In schools, if you go to teach kids with less interest in music the nuances of music, they feel deviated, as it is very technical. But teaching them songs, to begin with, creates a natural desire in them to know the other country, their eating habits, the way they dress up, how they look, and other things.

Music Dress Eating Feel You Look

I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning man.

Family Man Drive Never Tenacity Had

My family is very creative. My grandfather played the guitar in Cuba. My sisters, my mom and two aunts would do harmonies, so I would see them and think, 'I want the attention.'

Family Creative Mom Think Guitar

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