Lee Daniels Quotes
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There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.
Sam Graves -
With 'Dance Moms' in L.A., we film on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. When we film in Pittsburgh, we film the same days, but we still dance in our studio when we're not filming, so I'm dancing every day except Sunday.
Maddie Ziegler -
Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.
Aaron Carter -
The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
Ferdinand de Saussure -
When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
Daniel Espinosa -
Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.
Os Guinness
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Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
Parker Posey -
I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
Rachel Weisz -
Robert de Niro has always been fascinating to me. And if John Cazale were still alive, that would be a man I'd love to work with. I'm a big fan of Paul Thomas Anderson's films - I would be honored to work with him. I think he's a brilliant director, and he gets such compelling stories out of his actors and out of his crew.
Tatiana Maslany -
In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
Carl Honore -
I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
Patrick Fischler -
I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
Jack Antonoff Fun.
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
Oscar Wilde -
The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.
Garth Brooks -
Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
Edmund Hillary -
I don't particularly like L.A.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
Although I have lived in Manhattan since 1992, for the better part of two decades I have remained in blissful oblivion of all matters sportif.
Hamish Bowles -
While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
Madeleine Albright
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It was always part of the plan to move into acting.
Aaliyah -
If I go onstage, I want to give people everything they want and more. I'll wash their car for them on their way out.
Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails -
If you are going to be a writer, you have to have self-belief, every writer gets rejections, they say the difference between a successful and unsuccessful writer is an unsuccessful writer gives up, if you keep going you will succeed.
Anthony Horowitz -
The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.
Chogyam Trungpa -
Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.
Rita Mae Brown -
The rules are: The only ego is the film, and you have to serve the film.
Lee Daniels