Lee Daniels Quotes
I'm not Tyler Perry. I'm not Dino De Laurentis. I think it's a bit much to put one's name in front of the film. It makes me uncomfortable.
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Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.
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I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.
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With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
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You know, I'm very proud of the large number of Hispanic endorsements that I've received.
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You take so much on as a therapist: you just sit there and listen to people talk with you, and you're trying to help people, and it can be draining.
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I have blood from Dutch and Norwegian.
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2016 is going to be a fight. A fight between conservatism and a Democrat Party that is undermining the very character of our nation.
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If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.
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Chinese people themselves, they really want change.
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I don't have any plans to pursue film acting. It's not my thing anymore, if it ever was. Yes, I do still act sometimes. But when I do, it's with people I know and trust, people who respect me as a person and appreciate what I have to offer.
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I've discovered the burger is a crazy thing in Vegas, but I was one of the early chefs to do a lot of burgers.
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Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.
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One of the problems with the Internet is that a lot of times it is inaccurate.
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He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning.
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In a democratic society like ours, relief must come through an aroused popular conscience that sears the conscience of the people's representatives.
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He was wild the way a mistreated dog becomes wild, not because it loves freedom, but because it has lost trust.
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While the forces of repression need to win every time, the progressive elements need only triumph once.
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In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.
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I've carried on, in that same tradition, with my kids. Aside from just his brilliance, in my estimation, I think he had one of the great imaginations of the 20th century. One of the reasons why the tradition carries on, all these years later, is because, as a parent, those are the books that you go to and pull off the shelf because they never stop delighting you.
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How bad does it have to be before you do something about it?
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Instead of being able to look at smaller interesting research projects, I am trying to see the links between all the research NASA does. For me, that's extremely fun because I get to go play and learn about areas of science that I know nothing about.
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Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't.
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VH1 does its little '80s retro thing once in a while, all of us in our bad hairdos and unfortunate clothes.
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I'm not Tyler Perry. I'm not Dino De Laurentis. I think it's a bit much to put one's name in front of the film. It makes me uncomfortable.
