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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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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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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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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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.
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Herman Melville was supposed to be an accountant. Van Gogh was meant to be an art dealer. I was meant to take the train into New York and work for a bank. To be an artist, you have to say goodbye to your family.
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I'm addicted to growth.
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To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
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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.
