Dee Rees Quotes
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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
Laura Harrier -
After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.
Manju Warrier -
When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.
Eddie Marsan -
They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.
Zhang Ziyi -
You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.
R. Lee Ermey -
The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
Eden Phillpotts -
False news, when combined with social media, can wreak havoc thanks to its potential of reaching millions in a short span. The effects can be quite disturbing.
Fabrizio Moreira -
There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.
Pam Grier -
I should be married and have 19 kids. And now I'm thinking my eggs are dying on the shelf. They're going to go past their expiration date. But it's what I chose, so I'm fine with that decision.
Octavia Spencer -
What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.
Cao Cao -
By the time I was 10, I had lived in 11 different countries.
Natasha Little
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In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is easy to conceive of innovation and regulation as mutually exclusive, California is proof that we can do both. We can innovate responsibly.
Kamala Harris -
Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
Jacob Bronowski -
I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
‘And shove him into a dungeon with dripping walls and see to it that he is well gnawed by rats.’
P. G. Wodehouse -
The mass and majesty of this world, all That carries weight and always weighs the same Lay in the hands of others; they were small And could not hope for help and no help came: What their foes like to do was done, their shame Was all the worst could wish; they lost their pride And died as men before their bodies died.
W. H. Auden -
Magically turning people's old scalar contexts into list contexts is a recipe for several kinds of disaster.
Larry Wall
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A warrior's mission is to foster the success of others.
Morihei Ueshiba -
Housekeeping ain't no joke.
Louisa May Alcott -
When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.
Travis Tritt -
We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That was a myth from the very beginning.
Allan Douglass Coleman -
This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.
Stephen R. Donaldson -
I can't put anything out that's not me.
Dee Rees