Lee Daniels Quotes
I don't read the reviews, the blogs, or anything else. Instead, I feel the audience when I show the film.
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.
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It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
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I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
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A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
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I can relate to pushing yourself because you want to help and move culture toward justice.
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My main focus when I do my makeup is my eyes - I accentuate my eyes, and they look bigger. More 'va va voom,' I guess you can say.
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As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.
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I went to see Dad in hospital after he had gone through one particularly grueling operation. I walked into the room where he was recovering, and he was sitting up in a chair, wearing his shirt and tie. That was after eight hours of surgery. I found that so moving.
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Before 'This is Our Youth', I did a week of table reading 'Airline Highway' at Steppenwolf in Chicago while the author, Lisa D'Amour, workshopped it.
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Somewhere down the line, I realised that dairy products were giving me acidity, so now I am a vegan.
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Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons.
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And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.
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There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
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Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.
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Every fictional thing I wrote gave me strength to write another and another. By the end I wasn't remaining true to anything but the story I wanted to tell.
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I've learned a lot from doing the sitcom. I've learned so much about comedic timing. For all the movies I've done, I've played so many different roles. I love both, but I guess in my career maybe I want to stick more to film.
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Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.
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I don't read the reviews, the blogs, or anything else. Instead, I feel the audience when I show the film.
