"Sometimes a rural life - without agricultural culture, community, or land - it means that you're a very long drive from everything. It's a big cultural isolation in terms of any kind of schooling where you could get exposed to things that might push the positive buttons. The geography of where people find themselves situated, both in metropolises and in the heartland, really starts to matter."

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

#Mean Quotes #Heart Quotes #Land Quotes

“I'm a human being. I'm not perfect.”
“I'm more motivated, and I'm just working harder every single day, so it shows in the music, and it shows in the fan base, it shows in all areas when you're bringing it like that.”
“It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions.”
“Global is a unifying bond for people. Once they get outside their own heads and their own communities and see themselves in a broader framework, it really changes their sense of what they can get done. It all adds up for us.”
“I remember reading about a court case where a man tried to stab a judge with a pencil. There are Google pages full of similar instances around the world. It's obvious that the pencil lends itself to precisely that kind of use. It's not as lacking in dominance as you might think. I have an article on the fallacy of the designer intent because a lot of designers think they can design uses into technology. You can't do that. I use the pen, I make the mark, but the pen is also using me. The pen could be said to be allowing these kinds of marks. I can't do just anything with the pen.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Trust your intuition, rather than technology, to protect you from violence.”

Source : Tom Butler-Bowdon (2010). “50 Psychology Classics: Who We Are, How We Think, What We Do: Insight and Inspiration from 50 Key Books”, p.20, Nicholas Brealey Publishing
“I'd love to see the rushes but it's just not allowed because directors and also a lot of actors feel that if they see their work, and the director likes what they're doing, the actor might try to correct their mistakes.”
“Pretty much the worst reason to bomb someone is to prove that you're willing to bomb someone.”

Source : "'The Obama Doctrine': Examining White House Foreign Policy". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. March 10, 2016.

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