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Spike Lee Quotes

'Do the Right Thing' was my first union film. I looked at the rosters, and for the most part, it was white males. Especially the Teamsters. So we had some conversations.

Spike Lee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: March 20, 1957

Topics

Do The Right Thing White First Right

What is essential - the one thing that could stop us being coarsened to other lives - is that we feel a great, living wave of animal life all around us, covering the earth.

John Burnside

Life Great Animal Feel Wave Earth

Leaving America means renouncing your citizenship, moving out of the country and leaving family and friends behind. You can retain your citizenship if you like, but you'll still be away from loved ones and still be paying taxes. You lose all the good stuff about America and have to keep all the bad stuff.

Michael Arrington

Family Good Moving Loved America

Tattooed across NASCAR drivers' jumpsuits and over every square inch of their cars are the logos of the companies sponsoring the teams, underwriting the costs, paying their salaries. Everyone can see who the drivers represent and who is footing the bill.

Steve Bullock

Over Everyone See Square Inch Costs

I was actually signed at a very young age - I was 12 - and one thing led to another, and I ended up in a mutual split from the label. But it was probably the best thing that could have ever happened, because I was able to kind of leave the industry side of it for a minute and focus on the independent side.

Tori Kelly

Age Best Focus Young Kind Leave

With so much at stake maybe I'll just leave now.

Robert B. Parker

Now Leave Just Much Maybe Stake

Do I feel like I still need to prove myself? Absolutely. And I want to feel that way, and I like that.

Mary Steenburgen

Myself Feel Want Prove Way Need

I write about the things I feel strongly about.

Dido Armstrong

Feel Write Things I Feel About

I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes.

Christine O'Donnell

Car Job Me Worry Student Never

Words have life and must be cared for. If they are stolen for ugly uses or careless slang or false promotion work, they need to be brought back to their original meaning - back to their roots.

Corita Kent

Life Work Words Ugly Roots Meaning

I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.

Claire Denis

Brain Think Literature Cinema Brains

A lot of people say I am serious, but I don't think I am.

Claudia Schiffer

I Am People Think Serious Say Am

I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be.

Bob Schieffer

Time Beginning Book Events Out Just