Lee Daniels Quotes
I come from a family of servants. My father's father was a servant, and my father's father's father was a slave.
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
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My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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When I travel, there are no rules with my diet. I eat whatever looks good, but in small portions. Food is such a rich part of the travel experience. There is no way I would cut that out!
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character?
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Don't think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you'll never do a thing.
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People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.
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'Community' gets to be the indie movie, while a 'Modern Family' gets to be the big blockbuster release. They service that big massive audience, and we service a smaller audience. But we get a lot of creative freedom.
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I come from a family of servants. My father's father was a servant, and my father's father's father was a slave.
