Lauren Shuler Donner Quotes

I like having an idea, or hearing an idea, and getting it into a proper script.

Lauren Shuler Donner

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• 'Straight Outta Compton' is my first biopic, my first period piece, and I got a chance to kind of get out there like some of my idols, you know, like Scorsese, Spielberg, Spike Lee, the guys who came before me. You know, I'm feeling good about it.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Chance

• I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Doubt
  • Print
  • Traditional

• My main thing is I'm going to compete on every play, try to be focused on both ends of the court. That said, I'll always bring my excitement, my swag, to the game.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Game
  • Said
  • Try

• Well, first I have to make the team, of course.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Team
  • First
  • Well

• Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Want
  • Train
  • Diamond

• I love New York.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Love
  • New
  • New York

• Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Freedom
  • Worth
  • Having

• I always knew I'd go to space.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Space
  • Always
  • Go

• I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Real
  • Society
  • Free

• What musicals need is a new me.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Me
  • Need
  • New

• I wasn't really a dark kid, but I was in my head a lot. I got good grades all through my 16 years of Catholic school, but I was always writing these weird - and, I have to say, really bad - stories, filled with murder.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Good
  • Writing
  • School

• As an actor, you put yourself out there. You put yourself in the arena as an easy target.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Yourself
  • Actor
  • Easy

• It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Waiting

• I don't mind America becoming a Third World country. The weather is better in the Third World than it is where I live in New Hampshire. And household help will be much cheaper.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Live
  • Country

• Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Me
  • Television
  • Example

• I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!

  

  Walt Whitman

• It was as if the whole western mind-training of individual differences had been made background instead of figure, so that you'd look at another human being and say, 'Here we are.' You'd see differences more as clothing, rather than as core stuff.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Mind
  • Training

• The Smethwick Conservatives can have the satisfaction of having topped the poll, and of having sent here as their Member one who, until a further General Election restores him to oblivion, will serve his term here as a Parliamentary leper

  

  Harold Wilson

• Pike, three inches long, perfectPike in all parts, green tigering the gold.Killers from the egg: the malevolent aged grin.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Long
  • Gold
  • Green

• Make us your slaves, but feed us.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Make
  • Slaves
  • Feed

• The absolute base-level thing that you do as a new screenwriter is send out query letters. Literally, you just say, 'Hi, Mr. So-and-So,' and you give them a one-sentence description of one of your scripts. You send it out to a list of people you found on the Internet.

  

  Evan Daugherty
  • Internet
  • Letters
  • Scripts

• I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Book

• The players don't play the position game as much as we used to play. A lot of young guys go up and down, shoot the puck, go for the rebounds. You're getting tired quicker because the body has to react where the puck is going to go. You cannot read it, because you don't have the puck on your stick.

  

  Jaromir Jagr
  • Up
  • Game
  • Tired

• I like having an idea, or hearing an idea, and getting it into a proper script.

  

  Lauren Shuler Donner