Lauren Shuler Donner Quotes

The thrill of doing television versus features is, in television, you get to focus more on the characters.

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• I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Like
  • Try
  • Just

• With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years.

  

  M. C. Gainey
  • Past
  • Doing
  • Lawyers

• I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Obama
  • Misgivings

• My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Job
  • Desire
  • Artist

• I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Thinking
  • Man
  • Eye

• When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Family
  • War
  • Peace

• I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Done
  • Want
  • Feel

• My real passion is to make movies, to direct. It's good for my ego to be an actress. It's like someone is saying, 'Yes, you're beautiful! Yes, you're doing fine!' But I feel like a child when I'm an actress.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Good
  • Real
  • Beautiful

• Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • Trying
  • Health

• On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Country
  • War
  • Society

• It is a pleasure to play under Jose Mourinho, and everything is OK. I learn every day. He is a normal coach. He speaks a lot with the players. I like it when the manager speaks a lot with you because it gives you confidence.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Day
  • Confidence
  • Learn

• I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Politics
  • Start

• Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Progress
  • Life Is A

• One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • World
  • Writing
  • Book

• Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • World
  • Job
  • First

• After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Children
  • Career
  • Small

• I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Want

• I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Fun
  • Designer
  • Costume

• We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

  

  John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead
  • World
  • Mind
  • May

• We lived near a supermarket, and whatever they threw away, we would get it, and my mother would make soup. Or she would get a big can of lard, a big can of meal, a big can of flour, a big can of beans, and fix the same meal for months.

  

  Ernie Banks
  • My Mother
  • Meal
  • Supermarket

• Especially girls, but any kids exposed to music programs and arts programs do much better on their tests. They have a better chance of going to college. They can focus better. You know, we're not just automatons learning how to work machines and do engineering and math and science. All of that's great, but you've got to build a whole person.

  

  Bonnie Raitt
  • Work
  • Great
  • Music

• 8: A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

  

  Alan Perlis
  • Attention

• The thrill of doing television versus features is, in television, you get to focus more on the characters.

  

  Lauren Shuler Donner
  • Focus