Lee Daniels Quotes
I've met Shonda Rhimes a few times, and certainly she's an inspiration for me in television.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
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Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.
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Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.
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If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.
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I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.
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The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.
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My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.
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A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.
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My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
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The way to build billion dollar companies is to first build something people love. There isn't really a shortcut there.
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I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
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Wherever we are, God's in that moment, God's speaking to us, and if we've just got our ears open and our antennas up, there's no lack of inspiration. He's not silent. We just have to be listening.
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My brand reflects my personal style. I think my inspiration comes from wanting to make clothes I want to wear and enjoy.
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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.
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I've met Shonda Rhimes a few times, and certainly she's an inspiration for me in television.
