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 was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
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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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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
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Our very first group was called The Prunes.' We did a lot of campgrounds, living rooms, and backyards.
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I started out in theater, and then I got a job on a soap in New York. With a soap opera, its every day, all year long - there's no downtime, and you're shooting a show a day.
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There are people who are very dismissive of games and gamers.
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I like things that are immature and offbeat and bizarre. Random jokes. Weird stuff. And stupid. Stupid is the highest compliment a person can pay to me.
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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.
