Laura Ziskin Quotes
When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.Laura Ziskin
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
Patricia MacLachlan -
Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.
Walter O'Brien -
No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
Jackson Browne -
I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.
Natasha Richardson -
I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
Ed Asner -
I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
Uta Hagen
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There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.
Hailee Steinfeld -
When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
Daniel Boulud -
Normally, when congee is served, the different condiments and garnishes are placed in little bowls on the side so diners can make their own personal creations.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.
Patricia McBride -
I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
Gary Numan -
I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.
Camila Alves
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
Magic Johnson -
When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.
Abraham Lincoln -
Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
Thanks so much to all the fans. To all our team, to all our wives, especially, that believe in us and that we come home to, and everybody here that's given us a shot.
Zac Brown Band -
I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
Dan Webster -
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
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The only constant I can find is hard work.
Paul Dano -
I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
Rachel Dratch -
There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.
Carl Hagelin -
Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
Ed Markey -
When someone is there for you, has your back, that's somebody to pay attention to because that's a friend.
Martin Landau -
When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.
Laura Ziskin