Lee Daniels Quotes
I look at my movies; I call my movies 'the kid.' It's like I'm giving birth. I'm in the cocoon, you know?
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Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.
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Some smashes have been timed at more than 250 mph, so you get less than a second to react. People who see a professional badminton match up close are always shocked at the speed.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
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It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of shape in terms of what's important. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.
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Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
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If you told me thirty years ago that people would be parodying documentary films, I never would have believed it. It wasn't clear that the films themselves even had an audience, let alone an audience for parodies of them.
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I was 3 when I told my mom that I knew what my dharma was and that I wanted to be an actor.
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I look at my movies; I call my movies 'the kid.' It's like I'm giving birth. I'm in the cocoon, you know?
