Lee Daniels Quotes
There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.
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One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.
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They hate whom they fear.
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure.
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You're lucky enough in television to always be at it, to always be doing it. It's like you're constantly that person, always, all the time. It gets to be like clockwork.
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Al Qaeda has significance beyond its numbers, frankly. And so for us, our 24-hour-a-day objective is to seek out those al Qaeda cells. And, as we seek them out, to target them and eliminate them. And we're doing that 24 hours a day.
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The president has a right to discuss his national security policies with the public. But that should be done in the light of day without endangering our sources or methods. The public has no need to know details about intelligence assets or special operations units. Such disclosures endanger those who protect us.
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As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.
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There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly.
