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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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.
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Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.
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I bow down in memory of the victims, and I come to tell my Armenian friends that we will never forget the tragedies that your people has endured.
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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!
