Dee Rees Quotes

Art makes you see people as individual, unique human beings. Art, in that way, allows us to see each other in particulate, as opposed to in aggregate.

Dee Rees

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ArtPeopleYouUniqueWaySee

There is certainly no one 'type' of writer who deliberately draws on Shakespeare. In fact, there's a strong argument that everyone writing in the English language is influenced by Shakespeare because, to a considerable degree, he shaped that language.

Matt Haig

WritingStrongLanguageArgument

I don't wake up each morning saying, 'Oh, wow, it's me. I think I'm the cat's meow. I'm the best.'

Jeb Bush

MorningBestMeWake UpSayingCat

I played outfield in high school a little bit.

Steve Clevenger

SchoolHigh SchoolHighLittleBit

When I was leaving NBC News to go to CNN, people would say, 'What?! Why would you possibly leave the 'Today Show' to go to cable?' If I would've listened to people, I would've been on a great platform, but I wouldn't have grown as a journalist. So far, most of the steps in my career have been really good.

Soledad O'Brien

GoodTodayGreatPeopleYouCareer

People act like art is a white thing - or not for people of colour - when, really, so much culture and art comes from people of colour. I want everyone to get into what I am doing. So sometimes I don't like to work just in an art context because it feels like a lot of people aren't going to see it. I like it to be a part of everyday life.

Martine Syms

LifeWorkArtCultureI AmPeople

People who hate me call me a Twitter troll, which is laughable given my extensive body of work, which you can find on Amazon in the form of books like 'Gorilla Mindset' and my documentary on free speech, 'Silenced.'

Mike Cernovich

WorkHatePeopleMeFreeMindset

You must look like a money person for clients to trust you.

Michael Lee-Chin

TrustMoneyYouLookPersonClients

I think, first of all, every time you want to play somebody who is real is always challenging and always scary, because you are given a responsibility of someone's real life.

Liya Kebede

LifeTimeResponsibilityThinkYou

After September 11, 2001, I was feeling like I really wanted more understanding between cultures. It seemed to me that so much of what happened on September 11 was because people didn't understand each other and were suspicious of each other.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

PeopleMeUnderstandingFeelingMore

A young woman hiking alone in the mountains sounds dangerous. In the pre-cell phone era maybe it was, but I'll stop short of calling it foolish.

Claire Cameron

AloneWomanMountainsShortPhone

When money follows results - we will get more results for our money.

Bob Riley

MoneyResultsWillMoreGetOur

When Nixon opened the door to China in the early 1970s, Chinese artists got their first view of the West. Suddenly five centuries of Western art lay before them as a stylistic smorgasbord. Chinese artists could reinterpret it out of admiration or try to replace it. They choose the former.

Arne Glimcher

ArtDoorViewChooseEarlyTry

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