Dee Rees Quotes
I've been around many different lives, many different voices. It was amazing material for a writer.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.
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I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.
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I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
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I'm a bit of a contrarian, so I like the idea of going on stage without makeup, without the hair being done, in the jeans and shirt I've been wearing all day. At first that was an issue, because I didn't want to be disrespectful.
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I don't even read positive reviews unless they are absolutely certified by eight different people to not contain one thing that could upset me.
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[People] might have a different word for the yearning of the heart and the yearning of the spirit that is looking for what I call "God," it still is the same thing. It is the heart's yearning to know the origin of its mystery. It's a heart's yearning to know the power of the divine in each of our lives. It's a heart's yearning to be connected to that.
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I've been around many different lives, many different voices. It was amazing material for a writer.
