"I've always liked to write, but I never thought I could make a career out of it. I went to business school because in the '80, it was the thing to do. 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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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Dee Rees

#Writing Quotes #School Quotes #Creative Quotes

“I’m here now, I’m inevitably going to die at some point, and as an artist I feel an ardent urge to constantly be creating.”

Source : "Producer Adi Shankar Talks TRUTH IN JOURNALISM Short, the Success of DIRTY LAUNDRY, Casting Ryan Kwanten, Shared Universes, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 31, 2013.
“When in still air and still in summertime A leaf has had enough of this, it seems To make up its mind to go; fine as a sage Its drifting in detachment down the road.”
“God will protect us, but to make sure, carry a heavy club”
“Those who despise fame seldom deserve it. We are apt to undervalue the purchase we cannot reach, to conceal our poverty the better. It is a spark which kindles upon the best fuel, and burns brightest in the bravest breast.”

Source : Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.40
“If you want to go east, don't go west.”
“I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.”
“The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have... whether you like it or not.”
“Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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