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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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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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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We suspect it might be extended because of the severity of the storm, but we don't know that.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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Throughout my career, even as a very young actor, people have always said to me that they would like to see my Othello. They could see something of him in me, I suppose.
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There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly.
