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Dee Rees Quotes

I grew up listening to Mary J. Blige's music. When I initially met her, it was like, 'Oh, wow. I'm meeting this woman whose music was the soundtrack of my college years.'

Dee Rees

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: February 7, 1977

Topics

Music Woman College Listening Up

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.

John F. Kennedy

Today Service Man Tomorrow Living

We have some of the most rock-solid, lovely friends in the world.

Melissa McCarthy

World Friends Lovely Most Some

Post-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came at a time when contemporary music had become so complex, so experimental and detached that people turned away from it. Minimalism broke that trend and brought music back to the people.

Maya Beiser

Music Time People Back Important

By creating a context of pressure, I can exact more preciseness, more brilliance. It's just as if coal is subjected to enormous pressure, you can get a diamond.

John J. McLaughlin

Pressure You I Can Creating More

You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.

Jeff Bezos

Day Simple You Every Day Price Want

I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7-inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere.

Steven Holl

Daily Me Small Enough Paint Take

Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.

Tony Randall

Clever Awards Stunt Publicity Sell

When I decided to go to art school, it wasn't necessarily something I thought I needed. No one talked about graduate school when I was an undergrad. I went on to a residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and that transition from Yale to the Studio Museum, that was the real beginning of my professional career.

Mickalene Thomas

Art Beginning School Thought Career

I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.

Michael Phelps

Work Time Mind Think Long You

For me, there was nothing like my time with the Eagles - ever. We were young, and the world was new to us. It was the happiest time of our lives. They wouldn't let us play in their big leagues, but we had this game of ours... this marvelous, blessed game... and we just went out and played it.

Monte Irvin

Time Me Blessed World Game Play

I'm working for my state first.

Lisa Murkowski

First Working State

There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.

Jonathan Ames

Young Comparison Suffer Whom Many