Lee Daniels Quotes
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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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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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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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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When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.
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'Trilogy' was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn't left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that's probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that's what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.
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Indecision, doubt and fear. The members of this unholy trio are closely related; where one is found, the other two are close at hand.
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I don't work with fear, and I don't work with actors that are fearful.
