Lee Daniels Quotes

What attracts me to material are characters that I know - characters that I know people don't know but I know - and bringing them to the screen. Spotlighting voices that have not been heard before on screen.

Lee Daniels

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.

Jill Abramson

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I want to do more urban R&B with a little bit of pop, but not much. I want to have that soulful kind of side of me come out.

Jessica Sanchez

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There is a difference between being arrogant about yourself as a person and being confident that your work has some value. The first is unattractive; the second is healthy and natural.

Jeffrey Zeldman

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On TV at night, I DVR lots of programs - I use it more like a magazine rack flipping through shows than actually watching them in full. 'Charlie Rose,' 'Meet the Press,' '60 Minutes' are musts for me. I also DVR 'NBC's Nightly News' and 'The Chris Matthews Show' on Sunday.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

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The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.

Matt LeBlanc

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I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

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I don't like to read long books.

Tomi Lahren

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The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can't even spell. I don't even have a high school diploma. I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper.

Ron White

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We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

Milton Friedman

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In a movie, you work three months to tell a story that happens in two hours. In a Mexican soap opera, you work one day to make a story that's an hour and a half. So you can see the difference in the quality of the project.

Diego Luna

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It would be a dream come true to appear on Turner Classic Movies with Robert Osborne, who is one of my heroes.

Dennis Christopher

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There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

Doris Lessing

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