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

• A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength and discipline, but can also go forth alone in the solitude of the infinite sea. We ought to belong to society, to have our place in it, and yet be capable of a complete individual existence outside of it.

  

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • Life
  • War
  • Society

• Fishing is one of the greatest things that you can do, it has the power to relax you like nothing else and there's nothing quite like the thrill of the catch.

  

  Bob Gibson
  • Power
  • Relax
  • Fishing

• When you're suddenly pregnant and no one is standing by your side, even if you're in your 30s, it's a hard conversation. I'm a traditional girl, and I believe in marriage, and I just always thought that's the way I'd be doing this.

  

  Bridget Moynahan
  • Believe
  • Girl
  • Marriage

• It's only going to wind up in court.

  

  John Britton
  • Wind

• I want someone to be able to say, 'I relate to this person on The Five.' You feel like you belong. You kind of feel like it's family. They feel like they know us because we reveal so much about ourselves on the show.

  

  Kimberly Guilfoyle
  • Family

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

  

  Lauren Shuler Donner