Lauren Shuler Donner Quotes
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
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The first story I wrote was called 'Days,' and I have very little affection for it.
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My grandmother told me: 'Never be in debt to anyone or anything.' Which is probably why I've never been financially extravagant - I still go to Costco. I'm always conscious of living within my means.
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Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
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Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how.
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The thing about Texas is that it's a little larger than life.
