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Lee Daniels Quotes

I wanted to make a black 'Dynasty.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Black Dynasty Make Wanted

I heard this music coming out of the radio and it was 'Ain't Nobody's Business.' It got me. I thought, 'I can do this.' I decided just like that. No romantic story.

Business Music Romantic Me Thought

McGregor is a great fighter, and he is doing his job very well. He is very intelligent; he knows exactly what he is doing.

Great Job Doing Fighter Intelligent

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

Thought Talking You Fast Trouble

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Father Song Old First Years Out

I've always been a T-shirt, Levi's, leather jacket, and combat boots kind of girl.

Girl Boots Kind Jacket T-Shirt Been

Here's the thing. You can't get ten thousand hours of skiing. You spend so much time on the chairlift. My coach did a calculation of how many hours I've been on snow. We'd been overestimating. I think we came up with something like eleven total hours of skiing on snow a year. It's, like, seven minutes a day.

Mikaela Shiffrin

Snow Time Day Skiing Think Year

We cannot expect loyalty to an unjust regime.

Loyalty Expect Unjust Cannot Regime

I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we're doing here, or little stuff like, 'Why aren't I happier?' With every film I feel like I'm apologising for something. I feel I'm most successful when I'm looking for something that embarrasses me about my character that I'd like to expose.

Character Myself Me Looking Doing

I try to be as honest as I possibly can about the contradictions within my own heart and thereby get to something 'true' and revealing and important about contemporary American culture and human nature.

Nature Heart Culture American True

From time to time, everyone distorts. We all tend to believe what supports our side of the question and doubt what weakens it. When we are under stress, we tend to believe what we need to believe.

Time Stress Believe Doubt Need Side

The problem with most liberals - myself included - is we tend to think we're post-racial: that we've got a handle on things because we're not racists.

Christopher Priest

Myself Think Problem Things Handle

I read every book there was on jazz, about the original players - King Oliver, Buddy Bolden and all those groups. At one time I was fairly well schooled in that... I could tell you who played where and when, historically, way before my time.

Time King Book You Jazz Way

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