Dee Rees Quotes

I was never physically abused, but when I came out to my parents late in life, when I was 27, they definitely had an intervention.

Dee Rees

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LifeParentsLateNeverOutI Came

A lot of filmmakers from my generation were lucky enough to have their work more or less perpetuated by people who saw them originally on TV and on HBO and certainly on home video.

Joe Dante

WorkHomePeopleGenerationEnough

I just thank the people who took part in our graduated drivers task force, who came with their thoughts and ideas as to how we can best keep our roads safe, and it has paid off.

Jesse White

BestRoadsPeopleIdeasThoughts

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

John Benjamin Hickey

GreatSchoolYouBackGoActor

Getting anything off the ground is going to require a little bit of risk. That risk starts with sharing the idea.

Max Carver

SharingRiskGroundLittleAnything

I've always envied Thomas Jefferson's bed at Monticello. It's in a tiny alcove, bound by walls at the head and foot.

Michael Bastian

WallsBedAlwaysHeadFootTiny

It turns out kids today still learn that four-chord progression when they're just picking up the guitar.

John Scofield

TodayGuitarLearnOutUpKids

Again and again, I find something eerie in many Irish occasions - the unrelenting whiteness, the emotional tribal attachments, the violent prejudices lurking beneath apparently pleasant social surfaces, the cosy smugness of belonging.

Tom Paulin

FindBelongingIrishEmotionalAgain

That's what we're focusing on at Not Impossible Labs, looking at problems or needs that can be solved through hacking, modding, programming, whatever, so it helps one person first but has the potential to help many others.

Mick Ebeling

LookingImpossibleProblemsHelp

Every Monday night, there was a scary movie on Spanish TV, so my parents used to send me to bed. I remember lying there, listening to the TV, and imagining the movie in my head. And so probably the scariest movies I ever saw in my life were the ones I imagined.

Juan Antonio Bayona

LifeMondayParentsMeListening

My dad was very rough with us.

Jason Day

UsRoughVeryDad

You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught.

Joseph Barbera

YouRunWildPitchingKeepCaught

When I arrived at Campbell on January 8, 2001, the company had lost half its market value in the prior year. They had to cut costs to the point where they were literally taking the chicken out of chicken noodle soup and the product was no longer competitive.

Douglas Conant

JanuaryValueSoupYearLostOut

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