Lee Daniels Quotes
I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that.
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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We do a lot of outbound work where we're talking about the future. As we get involved with these new products, it helps us have a platform to talk about where the future is going.
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We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
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The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outweigh all the time and energy we're devoting. Imagine preventing health crises, not just responding to them.
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There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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I like big, soaring melodies and fun, splashy lyrics. Maybe like what Blondie would do in 2013.
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I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.
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The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
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I do think - I always tell that to young people - go to college, do theater, work with an audience. Don't try to learn how to act in front of millions and millions of people. Don't make that your first ambition, to be on a sitcom or get into the movies. Learn who you are as an actor, and the best way to do that is to do it in front of an audience.
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That society exists to frustrate the individual may be seen from its attitude to work. It is only morally acceptable if you do not want to do it. If you do want to, it becomes a personal pleasure.
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I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that.
