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
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I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.
J. A. Konrath
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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
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
Tamora Pierce
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Well, first I have to make the team, of course.
Carly Patterson
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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.
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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
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As an actor, you put yourself out there. You put yourself in the arena as an easy target.
Katee Sackhoff
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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
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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
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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
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I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!
Walt Whitman
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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
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When I get an idea for a book, something appeals to me, it's usually a character. I'll see a picture of a female marshal in front of the courthouse in Miami and she's got a shotgun on her hip and it goes up on an angle. And she's good-looking. And I say, 'I've got to use her.'
Elmore Leonard
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One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Rita Mae Brown
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There are 80 jobs in which women earn more than men - positions like financial analyst, speech-language pathologist, radiation therapist, library worker, biological technician, motion picture projectionist.
Warren Farrell
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Some men are so macho they'll get you pregnant just to kill a rabbit.
Maureen Murphy
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I like having an idea, or hearing an idea, and getting it into a proper script.
Lauren Shuler Donner
