Dee Rees Quotes
I kept getting offered all this young adult stuff. I don't want to keep telling teen coming-of-age stories!
Quotes to Explore
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.
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Despite my so-so-experience with the iPhone, I do love its touchscreen technology, a feature I miss with my standard-issue BlackBerry.
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
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I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.
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It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.
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I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
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As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt, too - as if I'd somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.
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I'm not into the gym. I prefer dancing or tennis.
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I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.
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We are keeping healthier and living longer and I am a good example of someone who is in the Age Concern bracket but is still working and keeping active.
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About 13-14 years ago, I went back to my alma mater, Fairfax High School, and ran into the music teacher. She invited me to come speak to the kids about the viability of a music career. When I went into the room where I used to play every day in a big orchestra, they had nothing!
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I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.
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I kept getting offered all this young adult stuff. I don't want to keep telling teen coming-of-age stories!
