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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The job as a coach is difficult.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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Influence is best measured not only by military hardware and GDP, but also by other people's perceptions that we, the United States, are using our power legitimately. That belief - that we are acting in the interests of the global commons and in accordance with the rule of law - is what the military would call a 'force multiplier.'
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I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.
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I did no research on 'The Best Man.' That was something that came out from my own head.
