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'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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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Julia Roberts most definitely would play me in the film of my life. Not just because of the hair but because she has all sides to her personality come through in films that I could just imagine her playing my crazy self so well.
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Life is hard, Kid, you gotta be harder. You gotta take it on and fight for it and be a fucking man about how you live it. If you're too much of a pussy to do that, then maybe you should leave, 'cause you're dead already.
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I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.
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I don't know... part of, I suppose, my way out of everything, has been really taking care of myself. I think that comes from an awareness that my children really need me, and they need me to be the healthiest version of myself that I can possibly be.
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Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation.
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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.
