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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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 have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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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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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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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
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When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
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Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
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Putting people into homes, though a desirable goal, shouldn’t be our country’s primary objective. Keeping them in their homes should be the ambition.
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When you're working in a collaborative storytelling medium, every step of the way, you're opening yourself up.
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I fell in love with the ocean when I was just a little kid, four or five years old, I was a junior ranger, I was going out and doing intertidal stuff, walking around and sticking my finger in my first sea anemone and picking up starfish and all that. It gripped me when I was young.
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The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.
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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.
