Lauren Shuler Donner Quotes
I feel fortunate every day I'm in this business. No matter how hard it is, no matter how ruthless some people are, I was born to do this; I was born for movies.
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It's always humbling, knowing where we came from. From being friends with the janitor in the bar and being friends with the waitress - because they were some of the only people that were listening when we finished playing - to this, we are able to appreciate every single person and every single piece of it, because we came from nothing to this.
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Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.
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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
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People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.
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I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.
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I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.
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I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.
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Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
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Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
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Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.
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There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.
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Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part.
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I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'
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When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
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The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects.
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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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'Swingers' was a little closer to what my real experience was. 'Crazy Eyes,' whoever's experience that is, I'm telling you what, that was one heck of a ride.
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Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating.
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I feel fortunate every day I'm in this business. No matter how hard it is, no matter how ruthless some people are, I was born to do this; I was born for movies.
