Dee Rees I was interested with exploring the idea of who gets to be in possession of the land – how it’s sometimes impossible to go back home, how family can be the thing that drags you down. – Dee Rees Drags Quotes Exploring Quotes Family Quotes Idea Quotes Impossible Quotes Land Quotes Possession Quotes With ‘Pariah,’ at the time, I had just come out. I had a coming out experience, and I was writing about it, transposing my experience as an adult: What would it have been like if I had been a teenager in Brooklyn? The funny thing was people thought I was from Brooklyn. I had to be like, ‘No, I’m from Nashville.’ I was always going to direct. I wasn’t going to hand my characters over to anyone else.
Mary Karr Most of the people I write about I’m still in touch with, so I would be loath to make up stuff about them. – Mary Karr
John Woolman I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work. – John Woolman
Donovan McNabb As an NFL player, and as a veteran in this game, no one cares what you’re doing during the offseason. They only care about what you do on the football field. – Donovan McNabb
Cole Hauser When I was growing up, I never really knew my father. I didn’t get to know my father until I was about 14 years old. – Cole Hauser
ArtJames Turrell All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now. – James Turrell
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