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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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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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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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
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Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.
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I sometimes like to watch a good, dark, disturbing movie.
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I'm very, very specific about sneakers. I've always been a fan. It's not just certain brands, it's also the model of the shoe, the cut of the shoe, the colorway of the shoe. Someone will say, "Hey, this is the Air Jordan this." And I'm like, "Yeah, but that's not as rare as this Air Jordan, in this colorway." It gets very specific - it's the make, the model, the colorway. As a kid, I always wanted to have sneakers, but I didn't always get the ones that I wanted. So now, I'm reliving my childhood through my feet.
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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.
