Lee Daniels Quotes
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As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.
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I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
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I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.
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Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential.
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Paul Smith's artwork was so elegant and so graphic, so I think that's always had a strong effect on me, especially starting out.
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'Copper' is my first period piece. It's funny because I've been doing a lot of episodes of 'Elementary' with Johnny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu; they keep bringing me back on the show, and so I go from being an outstanding black doctor to being a kind of hood, ex-car thief who went through rehab in 'Elementary.'
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I was looking for seventh but the main objective was to get off of the bottom. And we did that and now we have several kids competing at the national level.
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I wasn't a good student in high school. I wanted to go to college, but they weren't exactly beating down my door to offer me admission, and it's so expensive in the U.S. If you join up for a period, the army will pay your school and provide a stipend.
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My mission is to let black kids know that their dreams can happen.
