Debra Granik Quotes

I'm not the same man I used to be, I'm not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

There are any number of conditions as to why your life didn't turn out the way you intended it to. My whole philosophy has always been that there is no way to change anything else in the world if you don't have the capacity to change yourself.

One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.

To change what you get you must change who you are.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

Our culture is so obsessed with the idea that you're going to go through a crisis or some difficult event and come out the other side a changed or improved person, and I just think that if you're honest, that often does not happen, and in fact, it shouldn't happen.

I've learned through my own experiences that working toward an objective in your life can change who you are.

The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

I've changed my life in a lot of ways. I'm a mom, a wife, and a Christian. Some of the things I expressed in my early 20s aren't what I care to express right now.

I think I've changed a lot as a person.

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

I totally changed my life, changed my lifestyle.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

Incarceration didn't change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.

I'm not as snarky as I used to be.

It's not that I'm Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes now, but I've got my priorities in order.

My life has gotten so much better since I turned 40.

So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.

You hold the keys of change within you. You be the change you want to see.

I think I did a lot of really stupid stuff really quickly in my twenties and that sort of led me to want to sort of just relax a little bit. Relax a lot.

From 19 to 28 there was a lot of turmoil in my life, but in a stuck way. Then, around 28, my life started to get shaken up. I realized I wanted to grow more and that anything that wasn't working in my life, I could fix it. I feel like I came into my womanhood. And that was when I got married.

I guess my writing has changed as my life has.