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Lee Daniels Quotes

I'm in a great place because I trust people behind the camera as I go off, and I still go back to my day job and do film.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Great Trust Day Job People Camera

A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions - leaving everything behind, crossing the trackless wastes, and in those stories the people who stayed behind and had their settled ways - those people were not the people who got the prize. The prize was California.

People Leaving California Everything

Not one has ever left my team to go join a gang.

Team Go Gang Left Join Ever

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

Johann Georg Hamann

Today Day Tomorrow Misunderstood Who

You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way. I don't even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It's just absurd.

Love Process Weird You Know Kind

When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.

Maximilian Schell

Life You Lights Plans Opera Own

You can't get too much winter in the winter.

Winter You Too Much Get Much Too

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.

Freedom Responsibility Speak Speech

In terms of long-term durable storage, the human mind, paradoxically, is pretty good, but it's very fragile.

Good Mind Human Storage Fragile

I always start with the music and then try to figure out what I want to write about lyrically.

Music Start Want Try Write Out

I like to have fun in the ring, but I knock them out.

Fun Have Fun Ring Out Knock Like

If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.

Douglas Coupland

Alive Nothing Used Being Get Simply

Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren't sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation's best days are still ahead.

Dreams Morning Children Best Focus

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