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.
Octavia Spencer -
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.'
Malcolm Gladwell -
I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
Calvin Trillin -
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.
Langhorne Slim -
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
B. F. Skinner -
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.
Ouida
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
Viggo Mortensen -
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.
Mara Brock Akil -
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.
Hank Azaria -
I tend to stay away from the comics.
Idris Elba -
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.
Gary Larson -
It's part of the job to compensate for outfit.
Victoria Pratt
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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.
Kate McKinnon -
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.
Taylor Swift -
We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.
Ian Hart -
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.
C. L. R. James -
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.
Samuel Beckett -
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.
Camille Paglia
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I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.
Placido Domingo -
I've been pretty well treated by the critics, but the critics who didn't like my comedies hated them with an unbridled passion, and then I would see these same people writing very respectfully about ordinary naturalistic plays.
David Lindsay-Abaire -
Whether or not we follow any particular spiritual tradition, the benefits of love and kindness are obvious to anyone.
Dalai Lama -
The Bible doesn't speak of "women's rights" in the social-political language we're used to hearing today. Still, that doesn't mean the Bible is silent on the subject.
Carolyn Custis James -
Mostly, though, college was me trying to look cooler than I was. There were definitely some Carhartt jeans and backward kangol caps in my repertoire.
Rashida Jones -
I feel a lot of folks, like teenagers, can feel like outcasts.
Dee Rees