Dee Rees Quotes
I thought that marketing was a way to be creative in business but quickly learned all creative stuff happens at the ad agency.
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Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.
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You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.
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I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
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Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions.
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But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well.
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Don't spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed, too. So, far too many authors wind up marketing their trailers instead of their books.
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When I look at my body, I'm like, 'I'm a lead of a TV show?' To have a man in the business say, 'Come along just as you are,' is really an incredible thing.
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During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.
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I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.
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Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.
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I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
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When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.
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After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
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Removing government-created obstacles to small business growth is what Washington should be addressing, and this focus should start with removing the herculean impediments to job creation found in the health care law.
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Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.
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I invited a group of students to my studio to expose them to both the creative and business sides of the fashion industry. It was fun because the group was so bright and full of curiosity. They asked really challenging questions about all aspects of the business and absorbed so much information so quickly.
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Investors know that what was going on on the Street with analysts was wrong, was corrupt and had to be changed, ... The smart business leaders are changing their ways. Those who are putting their heads in the sand are saying, 'Let's get rid of the cops who watch to make sure things get done honestly.'
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All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that's what I've been doing all my life.
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I've been developing mobile for years before anybody else really thought it was that important.
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When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people.
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The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
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I thought that marketing was a way to be creative in business but quickly learned all creative stuff happens at the ad agency.
