Lauren Shuler Donner Quotes

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

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• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• My father had a dark glimmer in his eye as he moved behind her. 'Old?' He spoke in a low voice as he began to rub her shoulders again. 'Woman, I have a mind to prove you wrong.'She smiled a wry smile. 'Sir, I have a mind to let you.'

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Mind
  • She
  • Father

• All knowledge is acquired through the application of reason and has a physical basis.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Knowledge

• I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two problems of our country - energy and malaise.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Country
  • Night
  • Energy

• Sometimes when you get on a new movie you kind of how to figure out the way other people work and it can be like being the new kid in high school where you're just trying to find out where your place is on the movie or on the set.

  

  Luke Wilson
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • Done
  • Innovation

• All of us in Fiji, the Government and the people, are very proud for what you have achieved in reaching the finals of this year's Hong Kong Sevens.

  

  Laisenia Qarase
  • People
  • Government
  • Proud

• When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Words

• I'm always looking for a story of survival.

  

  Dave Pelzer
  • Survival

• The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Single
  • Trouble
  • Lonely

• I love, in movies, when you feel and you understand the past of the character without it being said or having a flashback or something that explains. I think, in 'Prisoners,' we need to understand that Loki's character's past was not first class. He was not the first in his class.

  

  Denis Villeneuve
  • Character
  • Past

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

  

  Lauren Shuler Donner