Dee Rees Quotes

It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds.

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• Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Better
  • See
  • Improvement

• Think and grow rich.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Think
  • Rich
  • Grow

• I came up with a story and I wrote it.

  

  E. L. James
  • Up
  • Story
  • Wrote

• 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.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Business
  • Black
  • Small

• In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • World
  • Real
  • Book

• The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Decisions
  • Lead
  • Meetings

• I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Drama
  • Period
  • Everything

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Remember
  • War
  • Problem

• I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • People
  • Work
  • Care

• The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • People
  • Never
  • Constitution

• I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Books
  • Jokes
  • Spend

• There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Fun
  • Period
  • Challenges

• I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Myself
  • Finding
  • Secrecy

• I've played a ghost, cat, snake. I've been funny, sad. I've been filmed flying on screen. So why not spend time on something else? I don't need to accept everything I'm offered.

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Time
  • Why
  • Funny

• There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Good
  • Age
  • Practice

• I don't want to live on past records.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Live
  • Want
  • Past

• I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.

  

  John B. S. Haldane
  • Wish

• I like to invest in companies where I can really add value from my experience, network, etc., so checking out my portfolio of other investments, and my background, will generally give some guidance there.

  

  David S. Rose
  • Experience
  • Value

• It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Important
  • Business
  • Failure

• I love so many different denim silhouettes, but I do love a denim onesie. I think you can't go wrong with a '70s-inspired, full-on head-to-toe denim moment. I also love high-waisted denim anything.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Different
  • High
  • Inspired

• I would love for people to look at me as a great singer but also know exactly who I am, the way that we have loved and respected people like Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle, having gone through the different stages of their lives with them. That's the type of history I want to have.

  

  Monica
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds.

  

  Dee Rees
  • Different
  • Imagination
  • Failure