Lee Daniels Quotes
I didn't have the sensibilities of your ordinary filmmaker, let alone your ordinary African-American filmmaker. My heroes were John Waters, Pedro Almodovar, and actors that were part of that world.
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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I'm good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O'Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.
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Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything, absolutely everything.
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I can be manipulated only so many times Before even 'I love you' starts to sound like a lie.
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Pretend to be good always, and even God will be fooled.
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I didn't have the sensibilities of your ordinary filmmaker, let alone your ordinary African-American filmmaker. My heroes were John Waters, Pedro Almodovar, and actors that were part of that world.
