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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There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.
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I think more people need to make out.
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When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like to other people. And the moment you do it's a formula for yourself, and then you're imitating yourself, and then nobody likes you and they dont know why.
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I don't need to be any place else, because the music takes me to the only place I want to be right now. To the place where I am and have always been wholly me, the only church I've ever belonged to, the only place I've ever prayed.
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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.
