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 just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Think
  • Single
  • Learned

• 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

• For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.

  

  Evan Dando
  • I Love
  • Dead

• I would rather obey than work miracles.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Miracles
  • Obey

• Here we find the moat of thieves. And just as a lizard, with a quick, slick slither, Flicks across the highway from hedge to hedge, Fleeter than a flash, in the battering dog-day weather, A fiery little monster, livid, in a rage, Black as any peppercorn, came and made a dart At the guts of the others, and leaping to engage One of the pair, it pierced him at the part Through which we first draw food; then loosed its grip And fell before him, outstretched and apart.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • God
  • Food
  • Justice

• America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there, and the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States.

  

  Alan Bersin
  • America
  • Violence
  • Gun

• It's good for the NHL to implement different things - the 3-on-3, money that'll go to players - to try to get us to play at a higher level.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Good
  • Different
  • Money

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

  

  Lauren Shuler Donner