Lee Daniels Quotes
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.
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Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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...and he is as eitherhanded as a spider,...
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money.
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I don't work with fear, and I don't work with actors that are fearful.
