Dee Rees Quotes
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I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
Laura Marling -
All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
Adam Gopnik -
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.
Hanya Yanagihara -
Connection between life and radioactive nuclei is straightforward. No life without tectonic activity, without volcanic activity. And we know very well that geothermal energy is mostly produced by decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.
Garik Israelian -
You must learn to take life less seriously and to laugh.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Candice Bergen -
I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
Tamsin Greig -
All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
M. C. Gainey -
My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.
Waris Ahluwalia -
I certainly wouldn't define myself as a northerner. I'm not even really sure what that means. I've lived in London for 50 years. I wasn't born here, but I have spent most of my life here. So I don't make much of it, to be honest. I'm just myself.
Ian Mckellen
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It's hard to conceive of someone who could work for at least a few hours each day for months and years on the same story without it being close enough to their life experience to fuel their commitment.
Rafael Yglesias -
The methodologies and best practices used to develop software can be applied successfully to any challenge in life.
Walter O'Brien -
Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
Hans Christian Andersen -
I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you'll get into a state of constant despair.
Jack Reynor -
My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.
Samuel L. Jackson -
I was imagining a long life of being a stone cold loser. Then I got a job, which was really nice, then I got a great agent, a great manager, which was really nice. I was doing a lot of set ups, and, you know, I got to start working in L.A.
Mackenzie Davis
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I want people - especially young girls - to know that in life, nothing is going to be based on sex appeal. You've got to have something else to go with that.
Nicki Minaj -
There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.
Nelson Mandela -
Happiness consists of being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.
Marcello Mastroianni -
You don't have to make your life look like anybody else says it should look.
Dee Rees