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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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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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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Just as war is waged with the blood of others, fortunes are made with other people's money.
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As an actor, the first thing you learn in drama school is you never judge.
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We've got social media now where we can even create an identity for ourselves and show the world an inauthentic highlight reel version of who we are. But I'm drawn to real, not a highlight reel. The world doesn't need to see another plastic Christian pretending they've got it all together.
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You see that the people who are drawn to alternative medicine are often fairly healthy and they go to alternative medicine for what I call the 'symptoms of life.' Fatigue, joint pains, inability to concentrate, perhaps, the kinds of things that anyone over twenty-five gets at some point.
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I feel honored to be a part of something that provided people with entertainment and that inspired conversations. I feel very, very fortunate.
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There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly.
