"We all have to acknowledge the life and the path we were born into. And the things that define us, they're often somewhat narrow: our class, our race, our gender, where we grew up, what geography we were exposed to. The curiosity and wonderment of, "What it's like on your path?" - that's when you go into high alert."

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Source : "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.

Debra Granik

#Race Quotes #Class Quotes #Curiosity Quotes

“When you work hard and you treat people great, regardless of what it is that you're doing, naturally people want to help and do things.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Hart Talks 'Real Husbands of Hollywood,' Becoming the Next 'Chappelle Show'". Interview with Britni Danielle, www.essence.com. January 10, 2013.
“Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.”
“Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.”

Source : The Journalist and the Murderer pt. 1 (1990)
“I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.”
“All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be content when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases.”

Source : Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.
“But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them drown in foamy draughts of old nut-brown, then I do wear the crown, without the cross!”

Source : George Arnold, “Beer”
“... love always betrays its intentions.”
“Great leaders don't play by the existing rules.”

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