Lee Daniels Quotes
My dad was a cop. My mom worked at various jobs - she worked as a homemaker, a bank teller, a bartender.

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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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It's lovely to be considered pretty and lovely to do photo shoots, and I just love fashion. But I'm proud that I did the characters I wanted to do.
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
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I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.
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Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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I think and that is all that I am.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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I'm the easiest person to make fun of.
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I felt I was never going to beat Igor Ter-Ovanesyan or Ralph Boston because they were the joint world record holders.
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Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.
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I am very friendly with lots of people in rock'n'roll, because I spent so much time with them over the years through Mick's work.
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'She gives him candy. They're probably going to get married.'
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Recently, I took my son to see The Haunted Mansion, which was one of the worst things (I hesitate even to call it a movie) that I have ever seen. He thought it was better than Finding Nemo and we had a fruitless argument which I'm sure made him acutely aware of the disadvantages of having a film critic for a dad.
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My dad was a cop. My mom worked at various jobs - she worked as a homemaker, a bank teller, a bartender.