Lee Daniels Quotes
I had 'Push' and 'The Paperboy' next to my bed for many years. Those are some of the great, great novels.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I don't really like to work with actors that work a lot and are very well established already. In a way, I like to nurture talent and have it burst on the scene.
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Life is a school of probability.
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J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.
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Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.
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My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.
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I remember trying to be funny, and both of my parents were terribly funny. My father was also very dignified, but my mother was an absolute ding-a-ling, a ripper.
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Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.
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My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.
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While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists for complaining about it. Economic globalisation is about homogenising differences in the worlds' markets, cultures, tastes and traditions. It's about giving big business access to a global market.
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For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.
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My spirit will rise from the grave and the world shall know that I was right.
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I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.
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Celebrations are great fun: bunting and this and that and the other.
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I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.
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I'm pretty sure I peaked at 15.
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I had 'Push' and 'The Paperboy' next to my bed for many years. Those are some of the great, great novels.
