"Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes"

-- Franklin P. Adams

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“Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.”
“I genuinely hit puberty before everyone.”

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“I find thatâ€™s one of the great things about acting-you have the opportunity to stand in somebody elseâ€™s shoes. Each character faces a dilemma in her life, and as an actor youâ€™re able to step into that characterâ€™s skin, look through her eyes. You leave transformed, a different person, because once you live a little bit of someoneâ€™s life, it changes you.”
“[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not work.”
“I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.”
“Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.”
“When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.”
“I think that when you have audacity, you will get polarization.”

Source : "Lee Daniels Makes It Personal". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 5, 2012.

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