Dee Rees Quotes
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If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
Octavia Spencer -
Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.
Damian Woetzel -
It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.
Laura Dern -
I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.
Ted Danson -
Let people have an education and you can't stop them.
La Monte Young -
The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
Orison Swett Marden
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I used to teach animation history classes at the University of Texas, and I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons. I just love cartoons.
Warren Spector -
My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York.
Victor Garber -
There is no way to undo what happened in the Zimmerman-Martin encounter, but some good can still come of it: it could lead states to repeal their misguided 'Stand your ground' laws.
Adam Cohen -
I really feel all my adult life has been spent in that little black box. If a wonderful part on TV came along I would do it. But I don't want to do a recurring role. It would just be my luck that the thing would be successful. I'm old enough now and also secure enough financially that I really only want to do what I want to do.
Bea Arthur -
Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
Walter Benjamin -
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
Indira Gandhi
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I don't really put too much pressure on myself. The only time people feel pressure is when they put it on themselves and listen to the outside stuff. I have great teammates and great coaches that do the right things around me that allows me to just focus on the game of football.
Dak Prescott -
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
Saint Francis de Sales -
So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.
Barbara Boxer -
Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
Nancy Friday -
Those who derive satisfaction by perpetuating pain in others will probably not stop their tirade against me. I do not expect them to. But, I pray in all humility, that they at least now stop irresponsibly maligning the 6 crore people of Gujarat.
Narendra Modi -
My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
Lord Byron
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...words were said that could not be put right again...
Cormac McCarthy -
People will always try to stop you doing the right thing if it is unconventional.
Warren Buffett -
My brother Carl became a physicist; I became an economist.
George Akerlof -
I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
Nadia Comaneci -
I have to live, socially, in an almost unfinished society. Among the almost great, among the almost true, among the almost honest. That allows me to describe the anguish.
Derek Walcott -
When I'm on set, I know what I want.
Dee Rees