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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I was raised in a small town in Indiana and educated at Ball State University.
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When everything kind of hit the fan, my dad married Jo Anne, and suddenly there were five kids from the Ripleys and five kids from the Doughertys. Then my dad and Joanne had a baby. I usually have to make a diagram.
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I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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For me, the writing process is the same as the reading process. I want to know what happens next.
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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.
