Dee Rees Quotes
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.
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We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
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It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.
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I tend to stay away from the comics.
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I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.
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It's part of the job to compensate for outfit.
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Even if you're an angry, intense person, you also have to have intense joy about life and intense feelings about the world.
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I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that.
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We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.
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Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.
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Here's my life, why not, it is one, if you like, if you must, I don't say no, this evening. There has to be one, it seems, once there is speech, no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, that's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.
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The unhappy truth is that male homosexuality will never be fully accepted by the heterosexual majority, who are obeying the dictates not of bigoted society or religion but of procreative nature.
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It was the winter wildWhile the Heav'n-born childAll meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
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I change, like every single normal person.
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It's difficult sometimes to go and see a show and enjoy it and not go and see a show and critique it.
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Beefs against debt collectors are consistently among the top complaints received by both the FTC and state attorneys general.
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It's interesting, because I've worked with people who are just not nice people, and I've worked with people who are crazy, and the difference is: crazy is much worse.
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I feel a lot of folks, like teenagers, can feel like outcasts.
