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Lee Daniels Quotes

Rarely do celebrities and actors speak up for what they believe in.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Believe Speak Up Rarely Celebrities

As a person who came from a small town and had dreams of becoming an actor, I know what it's like to have no support system for what it is that you want to do. A lot of people think you don't have a chance.

Anika Noni Rose

Dreams Support People Small Chance

I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn't ask for one. One was assigned to me.

Mercedes McCambridge

Me Angel Never Ask Guardian Wanted

I'm an enormous fan of American literature, and especially the great novels of Larry McMurtry, 'Lonesome Dove,' Cormac McCarthy, Elmore Leonard.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Great American Literature Dove Fan

My hats did give me an identity. In fact, if I had a dollar for every time someone has seen me bareheaded and said, 'I almost didn't recognize you without a hat on', I could have bought the Cowboys myself.

Time Myself Identity Hat Me Someone

I love leaving the door open to good ideas. I love the collaborative swirl. I get charged by problem-solving, usually under some kind of stress - the sun is going down, and we have eight minutes, and we have to solve it. Great things come out of it.

Love Good Great Stress Sun Ideas

I discovered that I wanted to be an actor back when I did my first play in junior high. I've been doing theater in junior high and high school, and I just kept feeding the fire, kept wanting to pursue acting full-on.

Fire School High School Doing Acting

Lots of special interests play the immigrant blame game every day because they like things the way they are and don't see a need for change.

Change Day Blame Game Play Way

I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.

Business Buildings My Own Own Buying

I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.

Play Read Lot Any Instruments

I can't sleep without the TV on, so we leave it on during the night, and that's what wakes me up - Joe Scarborough and 'Morning Joe' at 7:30 or 8.

Morning Sleep Me Night Leave Up

When confronted with the facts of foreign atrocities, the experience is often consigned to the realm of the unimaginable. Fiction makes the unimaginable imaginable.

Experience Facts Fiction Foreign

I just pinch myself, because I think if there's anything I can be proud of, I've survived success, which I think is difficult these days.

Success Myself Proud Think I Can

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