Dee Rees Quotes
Having to stake out your identity and have people question whether or not you're being yourself was a tension that I could relate to.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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Fans will express themselves. We will always have the best security possible, as we always do. And I hope that Cleveland and the fans, you would hope that everybody keeps it to a certain level, because anything you do that crosses the line isn't going to look bad for anybody but the franchise and Cleveland.
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At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
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Those who are greatly occupied in physical or material matters lack sufficient knowledge or have only superficial understanding of spiritual matters. Therefore, such people's opinions and judgments concerning spiritual matters carry no weight.
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A scheme is unjust when the higher expectations, one or more of them, are excessive. If these expectations were decreased, the situation of the less favored would be improved.
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Money is small and the soul stands tall. All those who don't realize this, fall.
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Believe it or not, the biggest obstacle for a business owner with any size business is the internal response to the question - 'Now what?' Often this question is followed by a - deer in the headlights - response, which is then followed by stagnation. Following stagnation comes fear.
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You can do fascinating things with the tricks memory can play and tell. People can come to believe things which didn't happen at all if they're told them enough times.
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Having to stake out your identity and have people question whether or not you're being yourself was a tension that I could relate to.
