Dee Rees Quotes

I grew up in Nashville in a white suburb. We lived next to a Klan member. We didn't see hoods, but my dad knew that guy was a Grand Dragon.

Dee Rees

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WhiteNashvilleSeeDragonUpLived

By ending the Hussein regime, the United States has taken away yet another incubator of terrorism.

Jim Gerlach

EndingTerrorismUnitedAwayTaken

One of the great joys of being an actor is you get to go back to school.

John Benjamin Hickey

GreatSchoolYouBackGoActor

No Child Left Behind taught us that parents, teachers and state and local leaders are more suited to address students' needs than a one-size-fits-all accountability system developed by Washington bureaucrats.

John Kline

ChildParentsAccountabilityTeachers

One of the things you learn as an actor is that human beings are capable of almost anything. I'm sort of in the business of illustrating that fact.

John Lithgow

BusinessLearnYouActorHuman

It's not true that clothes look better on skinny girls; what counts is the attitude.

Sonia Rykiel

AttitudeBetterClothesLookTrue

I came up, I suppose, a fairly traditional way. I went to art college. I always wanted to be a stills photographer, really, when I was younger, and I briefly worked as a stills photographer.

Roger Deakins

ArtCollegeWayPhotographerAlways

You know, violence, I think, knocks on everyone's door.

Juanes

DoorThinkViolenceYouKnowKnocks

If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.

Chris Evert

HeartChampionYouYour

You couldn't give me any more confidence than when I was on T.V. because I was in control, but I wasn't in control in my private life.

Cilla Black

LifeConfidenceMeControlYouMore

I wasn't passionate about food until I'd been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just wanted to cook, period.

Bobby Flay

FoodCookingMediaLongPassionate

I love Grimes.

Brie Larson

LoveI Love

From Borges, those wonderful gaucho stories from which I learned that you can be specific as to a time and place and culture and still have the work resonate with the universal themes of love, honor, duty, betrayal, etc. From Amiri Baraka, I learned that all art is political, although I don't write political plays.

August Wilson

WorkLoveTimeArtCultureHonor

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