Dee Rees Quotes
I kept getting offered all this young adult stuff. I don't want to keep telling teen coming-of-age stories!
Dee Rees
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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.
Jackie Robinson
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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.
Rachel Stevens
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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.'
Nadia Comaneci
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
Natalie Cole
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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.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.
Rafael dos Anjos
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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.
Kara Swisher
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
Manly Hall
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I don't weigh into politics.
Gary Bettman
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Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
Dan Jenkins
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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.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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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.
Ira Glass
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I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.
Bahman Ghobadi
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When I get older, I want to be a Kristin Chenoweth and Sutton Foster - you know how they do all of it? I just want to do anything that has to do with performing.
Lilla Crawford
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Town-scapes are changing. The open-plan city belongs in the past - no more ramblas, no more pedestrian precincts, no more left banks and Latin quarters. We're moving into the age of security grilles and defensible space. As for living, our surveillance cameras can do that for us. People are locking their doors and switching off their nervous systems.
J. G. Ballard
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It's very important to learn quick lessons from your failures, very important to recognize symptoms of failure pretty early, and it is very, very important to not to be attached too much to the idea - you have to know when to give up an idea.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.
Denzel Washington
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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!
Dee Rees
