Laura Ziskin Quotes
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It's better to do a film that works.
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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.
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When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the opportunity to do a ton of 'Stoppard,' 'Hairspray,' that I'm able to do 'Il Trittico' at the Met – how do I top that?
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Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.
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In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
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A great-great grandpa (there might be another great in there, I'm not sure) offered a gun and horse to anyone that would join the Confederacy in '64. Who cares if it was 1964. Give the guy a break. He had Alzheimer's and thought he was Jefferson Davis. (p. 5).
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It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything.
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What the American people understand is that I look at what we need to get done to keep the American people safe and to move our interests forward, and I make those decisions.
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It is delicate being my age and trying to do all the regular teenager stuff, and then having that in the spotlight.
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The Netherlands is not an immigration country. The annual stream of tens of thousands of newcomers, who largely end up as illegal aliens, must stop.
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I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.
