Lee Daniels Quotes
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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I always tell my partners that our job is to fund all the companies we can that can be worth $10 billion or more. That's such a difficult constraint, we can't have any other constraints.
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What's great about HBO is they just care about quality. They care about the brand. They're not worried about ratings; obviously they want people to buy subscriptions, but they just want people to be into what's on HBO.
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No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.
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The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day.
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My parents, particularly my father, had been used by commentators, political journalists and political commentators, to attack me, and the collateral damage was the reputations of my father and my mother.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.
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I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
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I figured, 'Why not go into entertainment?' I love entertaining people. I always loved being extra loud.
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Well I think in all the thirty years I've been doing this now and being gone from home and all that stuff it's really, it's not about what I've achieved and if I've become a better player, or played better ten years ago than I do today.
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The fashion thing is something I do, and yes, it is definitely also becoming a part of myself and my personality. It also doesn't really feel like a job, either: it's a dream or a passion or something.
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American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.
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Compliment three people every day.
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I love dishes that feature the various shades of a single colour, making you stop to check what's in there.
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I love doing a film with a new bunch of people.
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To my mind, faith is like being in the sun. When you are in the sun, can you avoid creating a shadow? Can you shake that area of darkness that clings to you, always shaped like you, as if constantly to remind you of yourself? You can't. This shadow is doubt. And it goes wherever you go as long as you stay in the sun. And who wouldn't want to be in the sun?
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Everything in New York is a fight. It's a fight to get on the subway. It's a fight to go to CVS. It's a fight to get a cab. And eventually, it wears you down.
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In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others.
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Tell them the universe is too complicated a toy for a sensibly cautious being to play with.
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I always sort of create practical problems so that I don't have to see a film I've just done. I'm too vulnerable, too fragile. People see your work, and there's nothing you can do. You're completely exposed.
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We took the insurance companies out of the driver's seat.
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I went back-to-back from 'Paperboy' to 'Butler,' literally with no break.
