Lee Daniels Quotes
I think this last film I finished, 'The Butler,' is the closest I will come to as a work-for-hire.
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'
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My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.
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It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.
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There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
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I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.
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It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
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I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.'
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How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.
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When I was 15 or so, I made a conscious decision to try and sing with a big voice. Everybody I listened to had these big voices, and I wanted to try it. The blessing is that I could.
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My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy.
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I think this last film I finished, 'The Butler,' is the closest I will come to as a work-for-hire.
