Dee Rees Quotes

I've always liked to write, but I never thought I could make a career out of it.

Dee Rees

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

ThoughtCareerNeverWriteOutMake

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

Johnny Carson

FunnyEatingTelevisionFrozenRadio

At Harvard I was taking an African-American studies class, and we were reading about the tragic mulatto. Invariably, the tragic mulatto can't fit in either world and flings herself off a bridge. So I'm reading, and I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I think I'm in literature,' but my life was never like that.

Soledad O'Brien

LifeGodBridgeWorldReadingThink

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.

Steven Pinker

TodayMindGeneticsExplanationMost

I love working in Dublin, but when I'm in London, I'm more focused on my career.

Ruth Bradley

LoveCareerFocusedLondonMore

I get emotional easily: I feel like 'Cupcake Wars,' 'Chopped' - the right episode just breaks you apart.

Miles Heizer

FeelYouRightEmotionalGetJust

When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings, and books and you research and put a book together the way you would a jigsaw puzzle.

Janine di Giovanni

TogetherResearchBookPuzzleYou

I've grown so much in the music industry. From 'GoldenHeart,' it was just about me and the music and me in this dream. With 'BlackHeart,' its more about me and who I am and what role I play in my own life and in the business.

Dawn Richard

LifeBusinessMusicI AmMePlay

I'm not particularly attention-seeking.

Annie Lennox

Particularly

I never got nervous performing my own material.

Wiz Khalifa

NervousMy OwnNeverOwnPerforming

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

William Penn

PassionManReasonMobRiotHis

We covet experience; we have a secret desire to learn, not from cold prohibition, but from trial, whether those things, which are not without a semblance of good, are really so ill as they are described to us.

William Godwin

GoodExperienceColdLearnDesire

I hate when they portray women as just sex symbols in short skirts, running around playing dumb. I refuse to watch such films or be in such films.

Shenaz Treasury

WomenHateShortSexDumbPlaying

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Dee Rees