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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I was always an odd girl; I managed to alienate a lot of people. I felt like a square peg in a round hole in the music industry and created a lot of neurosis for myself.
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I wouldn't mind doing a soundtrack someday.
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You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.
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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.
