Malcolm D. Lee Quotes
I did no research on 'The Best Man.' That was something that came out from my own head.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
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In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.
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White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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I'm no producer's kid.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.
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To confound the tyranny of man there should exist for a century a third sex, both male and female, and stronger than men. This new sex would prove with the lash that men as well as women are made for its pleasure; and then you would hear men protesting against the tyranny of the hermaphrodite sex and admitting that strength should not be the sole rule of right. Just why do they refuse to grant the women the independence which they would demand from the third sex?
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Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.
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There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.
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The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's life must not be frequent.
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I did no research on 'The Best Man.' That was something that came out from my own head.
