Laura Ziskin Quotes
I describe myself as someone who was always putting on a show, even when I was a little girl. I wanted to be an actress but I liked organizing everybody and putting on plays. I was a producer.
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them... but not us.
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A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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It's such a Bore Being always Poor.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I've always been a huge reggae fan.
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I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama 'Stairway To Heaven' was me.
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My first thought is always of light.
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I always put my boxing first.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
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I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.
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Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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Redlining went beyond FHA-backed loans and spread to the entire mortgage industry, which was already rife with racism, excluding black people from most legitimate means of obtaining a mortgage.
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I describe myself as someone who was always putting on a show, even when I was a little girl. I wanted to be an actress but I liked organizing everybody and putting on plays. I was a producer.
