Dee Rees Quotes
My dad was a cop, you know, and I grew up three houses down from people who used Confederate flags as curtains.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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We have to be careful not to have a form of militant secularism in our country, which is counter-productive for children we would like to see - adhere - to secularism.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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I had people at Perrysburg High School in my life in Perrysburg who believed in me and told me I could do anything I wanted too, and I foolishly believed them.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.
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Investment in training is a huge necessity for knowledge-based corporations.
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L.A.'s always been good to me.
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There is a valid nationwide sentiment of concern over public pensions, and poor funding ratios are viewed negatively by financial markets.
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I think it's okay to talk about grief and sorrow. Especially for women, when you lose a child or have a miscarriage, it's good to talk about it, as a lot of people don't want you to speak about those things. It makes people sad, but sometimes you've got to.
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I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize.
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I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer - I just was one.
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When I was seven or eight I was really into Cream, really into Led Zeppelin.
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I can't stand confrontation, which maybe is a character flaw. But having said that, I do feel like when I do get upset - which is rare, as my husband and family would say - I have a hard time letting go.
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My dad was a cop, you know, and I grew up three houses down from people who used Confederate flags as curtains.
