Lee Daniels Quotes
Putting on a movie is like going to war - for me, at least. It's all about time; time is money, and we don't have it. So it's all about getting to know each other intimately quickly. You are with family members that you like or don't like, but you can't leave them because you're stuck with them.
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
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Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
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As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
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I love to have no plans. It is amazing where your day can turn when you have no plans: meeting people or just going to a little pub on the side of the road.
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On n'est jamais excusable d'être méchant, mais il y a quelque mérite à savoir qu'on l'est; et le plus irréparable des vices est de faire le mal par bêtise.
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He's mellowed out a bit. Now he has something else to be stressed about instead of just the band.
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What's interesting is that producers, directors and writers tend to typecast me in terms of whatever movie they've seen me in most recently.
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Putting on a movie is like going to war - for me, at least. It's all about time; time is money, and we don't have it. So it's all about getting to know each other intimately quickly. You are with family members that you like or don't like, but you can't leave them because you're stuck with them.
