Lee Daniels Quotes
I see the world from a very specific perspective. It is how I grew up. It is what I am proud of, and I vocalize it. And for those who have not experienced my experience, it is odd, and it's not mainstream.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.
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I have to say I have the most experience. I'm a veteran when it comes to that, [my brothers] they're still learning. They have lots of potential. They're like first-round picks right now in the game, they still have to develop.
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You need to find the size of performance that's appropriate to the material, appropriate to the shot, or appropriate to the scene.
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This idea of universal access to basic healthcare has to be figured out as a world. No country has figured it out in part because it is driven by ideology.
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I see the world from a very specific perspective. It is how I grew up. It is what I am proud of, and I vocalize it. And for those who have not experienced my experience, it is odd, and it's not mainstream.
