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Lee Daniels Quotes

I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.

Lee Daniels

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: December 24, 1959

Topics

Style Ending American Cinema Three

I've been in California for about 15 years now. You're always in your car and insulated. I miss New York so much.

Jimmy Smits

Car New York You New Now California

I could have sexual chemistry with vinegar.

Jessica Alba

Chemistry Vinegar Sexual Could

I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established.

John A. Logan

Government War Die Peaceful Become

As a young writer, I learned a lot about grammatical structure from reading plays, from performing the plays. I think that was a wonderful apprenticeship.

Jennifer Haigh

Reading Think Young Structure Writer

All the Jewish tradition I had came from my grandmother, who grew up in Palestine and eloped with my grandfather and went to New York. She lived very close to us until she died when I was around 20. She sang a lot of songs, led the Passover seders. It was a very rich part of my life, and my grandmother was a big part of my life.

Jenny Scheinman

Life New York Rich My Life Tradition

At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.

John Pople

Age Mathematics Book End Class

Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin.

Simone Schwarz-Bart

Heart Knife Only Knows Pumpkin Goes

I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just, I think, more than any other book made me want to be a writer, 'cause it was the first time that I hadn't just entered a book, but a book had entered me.

Ron Rash

Time Moment Me Book Think Want

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

Michael Shermer

Historical Myth Fact Literary Plato

I meditate - very pretentious - and I try to read as much as I can and swim at the Y.

Lucas Hedges

I Can Try Swim Pretentious Read

My goals are to tell meaningful stories through songs and touch people's lives... and hopefully make a living doing it.

Jordin Sparks

Goals People Doing Living Touch

Don't limit yourself to wearing a black dress because it's 'slimming.'

Ashley Nell Tipton

Yourself Dress Black Limit Because