Dee Rees Quotes

I'm not a writer that writes every day. I just kind of have ideas. I jot them down when I have them, and when I have enough, I just start. And for me, I start more around noon, and I'm all about feeling. Once there's a theme, I can't not write.

Dee Rees

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• The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.

  

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• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

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• 'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.

  

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• Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.

  

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• Social media is interesting. It helps me connect with fans. It's immediate. It's a big part of my touring business - getting the word out via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

  

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• I have been blessed with friends who do things rather than buy things: friends who will change books at the library, take a bag of your old clothes to a thrift store, bring you cuttings and plant them in a window box, fill the bird feeder in your garden when you can't get out.

  

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• I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.

  

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• I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

  

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• I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.

  

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• Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.

  

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• The most resonant crimes are the ones in which the victim is most innocent, or perceived as innocent. Blaming the victim is tempting; it offers an out.

  

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• Across the board, women are unhappy with our industry.

  

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• What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!

  

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• After I spent my compulsory army service in the 'top secret office' of the Medical Forces, where I was fortunate to be exposed to clinical and medical issues, I enrolled to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

  

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• I've been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what's going on in their love lives.

  

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• I think even when homeowners love their room, it's still a shock, because you left your house, went to sleep, came home and your room was dramatically and drastically different.

  

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• Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.

  

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• I go to various boot camps 4-5 times a week, and I try to get some Pilates in there to thin and tone.

  

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• Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say, Laura Bush had that much effect on the Bush administration. She certainly, you know, seems to be a nice person who I think the public likes. But I can't really put my finger on any huge impact she's had.

  

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• I held the feeling in my heart; the urge to discuss it died out. There was all the time in the world. In the endless repetition of other nights, other mornings, this moment, too, might become a dream.

  

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• I enjoy trying to develop a car and Mercedes are one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world.

  

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• I'm not a writer that writes every day. I just kind of have ideas. I jot them down when I have them, and when I have enough, I just start. And for me, I start more around noon, and I'm all about feeling. Once there's a theme, I can't not write.

  

  Dee Rees
  • Feeling