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.

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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
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Child

• What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.

  

  Varley O'Connor
  • Facts
  • Fact
  • Deeper

• Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Different
  • Thought
  • Problems

• Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Money
  • Crazy
  • Teen

• I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Age
  • Play

• No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Alone
  • Dance
  • End

• 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
  • Believe
  • Father
  • Loss

• I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

  

  Ed Asner
  • School
  • High
  • Career

• Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Imagination

• I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Bad
  • Know
  • Liar

• 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
  • Energy
  • Experiences
  • Female

• 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
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Imagination

• 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
  • Different
  • Own
  • Personal

• 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
  • Different
  • She
  • Happy

• The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Family
  • Me
  • Foundation

• I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Joy
  • Winning
  • Feel

• I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Love
  • History

• Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Country
  • Rights

• I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Girl
  • Never
  • Wedding

• 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
  • Life
  • Work
  • Mind

• It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Men
  • Sick
  • Profound

• We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Death
  • Stop
  • Space

• In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already, that says there's evidence that, yes, in principle, they can be better programmers than humans.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Up
  • Better
  • Chess

• 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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  • Cancer