Lauren Shuler Donner Quotes

We love 'X-Force.' It allows us to be a little grittier.

Lauren Shuler Donner

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• I realize that things happen for a reason.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Reason
  • Happen
  • Realize

• My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.

  

  Aaron Sanchez
  • Mother
  • Inspiration
  • Influence

• There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Company

• History is a race between education and catastrophe.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • History
  • Education
  • Race

• We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Children
  • Heart
  • Happiness

• No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Man
  • Knowing
  • Escape

• I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Art
  • Why
  • Movie

• Maybe I am a bit unusual here, but I am less stressed if I have my phone with me. Because I can spend like an hour in the morning taking care of everything instead of I sit there and wonder what I missed or wonder what's happening. So it's way less stressful for me to just answer my phone.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Care
  • Phone
  • Stressful

• In summers, while growing up in India, we often slept in the courtyard under the stars.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Stars

• The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Art
  • Enemy
  • Limitations

• When you're governor, you've got to step up to the plate; you've got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That's the requirement. And then you've got to sit down and negotiate if the folks that you need to work with disagree with you on points.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Down

• I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Long
  • Movie
  • Lost

• I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Different
  • Want
  • Know

• I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew was that I wanted to write songs; thankfully, I also got to sing them.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Write
  • Deal
  • Got

• First of all, we have seen now in six years of Obamacare that it has been a disaster. It is the biggest job-killer in this country. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, have been forced into part-time work, have lost their health insurance, have lost their doctors, have seen their premiums skyrocket.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Time
  • Work
  • Country

• When you're growing up, it's always nice to have someone you can relate and look up to. I'm proud of how I conduct my business and how I have accomplished all that I have accomplished, and hope that I can be a positive influence on not only the Mexican community but also young boxers and people all around the world.

  

  Victor Ortiz
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Men
  • Long

• To project my mark outside myself – but I did it! walking in the streets of Venice Klein wore a shirt imprinted with the marks of his own hands and feet.. .I found myself confronting everything that was psychological in me. I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my childhood...

  

  Yves Klein
  • Lost
  • Childhood
  • Walking

• Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish. … The trouble is you won't fight. You've given up. But there's something just as inevitable as death. And that's life. Think of the power of the universe - turning the Earth, growing the trees. That's the same power within you - if you'll only have the courage and the will to use it.

  

  Charlie Chaplin
  • Life
  • Up
  • Power

• The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.

  

  Carol Gilligan
  • Different
  • Women
  • Stop

• I found out that I'd broken up with someone when I wasn't even aware I was going out with them!

  

  Ella McMahon
  • Up
  • Broken

• I was married to an Italian, and my son was born there. I've got lots of connections there, and I lived in the north, in the country about an hour outside of Milan, for quite a few years. I speak fluent Italian.

  

  Polly Walker
  • Country
  • Son
  • Italian

• We love 'X-Force.' It allows us to be a little grittier.

  

  Lauren Shuler Donner