Lee Daniels Quotes
I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.
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I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
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As most actors/actresses, I don't like to watch my own movies, either, and I never look at the dailys while filming.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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We should allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines. That will create a true 50-state national marketplace which will drive down the cost of low-cost, catastrophic health insurance.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and papers in archives or even private homes, looking for the telling phrase or letter that someone else has missed.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
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When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
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For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, I'd lose the joy.
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I'll listen to the people. I will not put my party ahead of what the people want.
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Tokenization applies to scarce assets. Today, the most appropriate thing to tokenize is something that's purely digital. Bitcoin and ethereum are the canonical.
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Why? Surely they can find other men.
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You should get as close to the power when you're pitching something. I got my two biggest breaks with the man who owned CBS and the guy that owned Paramount, because I was dealing with the guy who would say yes or no.
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I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.
