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Decades Quote by Dee Rees

“'Mudbound' highlights the fact that we're still battling a lot…” quote by Dee Rees — Download Open image

“'Mudbound' highlights the fact that we're still battling a lot of the same issues as we were all of those decades ago.”

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I want people to get from 'Pariah' that it's okay to be you and not to check a box as a parent or child.

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I thought I'd get an MBA, and then I could be anything. And I'd write on the side. That was the idea.

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I thought that marketing was a way to be creative in business but quickly learned all creative stuff happens at the ad agency.

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When I first started going out to lesbian clubs, I felt a very binary recreation of hetero culture. There are butches and femmes, and…

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I was always going to direct. I wasn't going to hand my characters over to anyone else.

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My ultimate dream was just to be an auteur.

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For me, books were my source of affirmation. Alice Walker, Audrey Lord - it was these authors who wrote about their experiences. It was…

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When I first came out, holidays were hard. I reached a point where I didn't go home anymore. I constructed my own, kind of…

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You can't be limited by your own experience.

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We shouldn't be discriminating against each other. The whole 'light skin versus dark skin' is an idea we need to break down.

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Going into a room and saying, 'I'm a black lesbian' - it's a strike against you.

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Each moment is defined by a multitude of histories, the past constantly converging upon us, perpetually decaying and reforming itself on the steady pulse…

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Nature will eventually do what nature has always done. It will respond in a self-stabilizing manner over the long term with moderate variability over…

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Music's free and music's for everyone to enjoy and express and interpret. It transcends countries and times and decades.

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I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get…

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In a couple of decades you have half of the wells that are drilled right now, and you're talking about numbers in the millions…

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Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline…

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We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience, and there's a lot going on here that…

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UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after…

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But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.

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It's funny, I used to say on 'That 70's Show', you could really put us in any decade, and it was about the people…

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So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is…

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... many folks take them seriously because they just 'know' that evolution can never be seen in the immediate here and now. In fact,…

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Nothing evades our attention as persistently as that which we take for granted... the decades roll on without even a suggestion that perhaps the…

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