Dee Rees Quotes
If I can go three grandmothers back and find a slave, that means someone else can go three grandmothers back and find a slave owner. When you interrogate your histories, it forces you to rethink who you are and where you are.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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The bonds that women share around the world, wherever we come from, they're very powerful and they have an ease of communication because we share those very important things of our families, our mothering, of improving opportunities for the next generation.
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But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
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I, personally, do not consider myself to be some kind of Holy Mary of feminism.
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Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.
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The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
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Nicht durch Reden und Majoritätsbeschlüsse werden die großen Fragen der Zeit entschieden - daß ist der große Fehler von 1848 und 1849 gewesen - sondern durch Eisen und Blut.
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People fight to preserve their frozen beliefs and then complain of the cold!
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The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
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Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?
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Catherine: Why commit Evil?Goetz: Because Good has already been done.Catherine: Who has done it?Goetz: God the Father. I, on the other hand, am improvising.
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I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.
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My job is to put words together and tell a story. If that doesn't work for you, it's not a war crime.
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My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque.
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Dr. Kettle was wont to say that Seneca writes as a Boare does pisse, scilicet by jirkes.
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The analytical faculty is underdeveloped in women.
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Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.
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If I can go three grandmothers back and find a slave, that means someone else can go three grandmothers back and find a slave owner. When you interrogate your histories, it forces you to rethink who you are and where you are.
